Effects of Couple Stresses in Fluids on the Creeping Flow Past a Sphere

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jul 1971 English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:The Physics of Fluids, volume 14, pages 1,580-1,582 (issn: 0031-9171,

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Authors: Stokes, V. K.;

doi: 10.1063/1.1693645

Effects of Couple Stresses in Fluids on the Creeping Flow Past a Sphere

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Expressions for the velocity and pressure distributions have been derived. It has been shown that, in the presence of couple stresses, the drag increases and that the effect of couple stresses is equivalent to an apparent increase in the viscosity.

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Viscoelastic fluids

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