Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Types of fluids


The Hershel- Buckley fluids are known as Thixotropic fluid, while Bingham fluids are know as Ideal Plastic fluids.

                          General equation is      τ =     μ  .[\frac{du}{dy}^ n  +  τ0 
1)     For Bingham and Thixotropic fluids, τ0 is greater than zero.
2)     For all other fluids, τ0 = 0
3)     For newtonian fluids, τ0  is zero and value of exponent n is 1.
4)     For Pseudoplastic and Thixotropic fluids, n<1.
5)     For Dilatant fluids, n> 1.

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