Flows of Bingham Materials Through Ideal Porous Media: an Experimental and Theoretical Study



Document title: Flows of Bingham Materials Through Ideal Porous Media: an Experimental and Theoretical Study
Journal: Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000312130
ISSN: 0100-7386
Authors: 1



Institutions: 1Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Engenharia Mecanica, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Year:
Season: Mar
Volumen: 24
Number: 1
Pages: 40-45
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental
English abstract The flow of Bingham liquids through porous media has been studied. Experiments have been performed to determine the flow rate / pressure drop relationship for the flow of a grease of Binghamian rheological behavior through an array of rods of circular cross section. The yield stress and plastic viscosity of the grease have been determined with the aid of a controlled stress rotational rheometer. To investigate a wider range of the flow parameters, the mass and momentum conservation equations have been solved numerically, in conjunction with the generalized Newtonian constitutive law and the bi-viscosity model. The finite volume method has been employed to obtain the numerical solution. These numerical results also yielded a flow rate / pressure drop relationship, which is in very good agreement with the experimental results. A capillaric theory has been developed to determine an analytical relationship between the flow rate and pressure drop for flows of Bingham liquids through porous media. It is shown that the predictions of this theory are in good agreement with the experimental and numerical results
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Dinámica de fluidos,
Mecánica, elasticidad y reología,
Fluidos Bingham,
Medio poroso,
Viscoplasticidad
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Fluid dynamics,
Mechanics, elasticity and rheology,
Bingham fluids,
Porous media,
Viscoplasticity
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