Drag in couple stress fluids

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1978 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik ZAMP, volume 29, pages 341-346 (issn: 0044-2275, eissn: 1420-9039,

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Authors: Ramkissoon, H.;

doi: 10.1007/bf01601529

Drag in couple stress fluids

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Abstract

A general expression is derived for the drag experienced by an axially symmetric body in the slow steady flow of Stokes' couple stress fluids. The result is compared with that obtained for micropolar fluids and then applied to the particular case of flow past a sphere.

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Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena, Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs, Physiological flows

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