Determination of High Water Fluid Properties Using a Capillary Viscometer

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-569
Author(s):  
R. W. Mickelson ◽  
E. H. Sulick

A simple capillary viscometer was used to demonstrate how one obtains the true shear stress-shear rate rheological properties of a polymer solution. The methodology, described in this paper, shows how the pressure drop caused by the friction of the liquid flowing through the tube is separated from the pressure drops associated with entrance and exit effects and the elastic energy of the polymer solution.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin P. Lautenschlaeger ◽  
Hans Hasse

It was shown recently that using the two-gradient method, thermal, caloric, and transport properties of fluids under quasi-equilibrium conditions can be determined simultaneously from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. It is shown here that the influence of shear stresses on these properties can also be studied using the same method. The studied fluid is described by the Lennard-Jones truncated and shifted potential with the cut-off radius r*c = 2.5σ. For a given temperature T and density ρ, the influence of the shear rate on the following fluid properties is determined: pressure p, internal energy u, enthalpy h, isobaric heat capacity cp, thermal expansion coefficient αp, shear viscosity η, and self-diffusion coefficient D. Data for 27 state points in the range of T ∈ [0.7, 8.0] and ρ ∈ [0.3, 1.0] are reported for five different shear rates (γ ̇ ∈ [0.1,1.0]). Correlations for all properties are provided and compared with literature data. An influence of the shear stress on the fluid properties was found only for states with low temperature and high density. The shear-rate dependence is caused by changes in the local structure of the fluid which were also investigated in the present work. A criterion for identifying the regions in which a given shear stress has an influence on the fluid properties was developed. It is based on information on the local structure of the fluid. For the self-diffusivity, shear-induced anisotropic effects were observed and are discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
P. Trávníček ◽  
M. Valach ◽  
Z. Hlaváčová ◽  
J. Mareček ◽  
T. Vítěz ◽  
...  

The goal of this study was the determination of basic physical properties such as density, calorific value and rheological properties of liquid biofuels. Biofuels on the base of bioethanol and rapeseed methyl ester were chosen. Following control samples were selected: diesel oil without admixture of methyl esters and commercially available diesel oils with small amount of methyl ester admixture (6.2 and 6.5%). Dynamic viscosities of individual samples were measured in the range from –10°C to 50°C. Then dependence of shear rate on shear stress was measured at temperatures –10, 0, 20 and 40°C. The most of samples showed the Newtonian behaviour. However, samples with high content of methyl esters or pure methyl esters showed thixotropy behaviour at the low temperature.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4-2) ◽  
pp. 546-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Basri ◽  
Jimmy Deswidawansyah Nasution ◽  
Ardiyansyah Syahrom ◽  
Mohd Ayub Sulong ◽  
Amir Putra Md. Saad ◽  
...  

This paper proposes an improved modeling approach for bone scaffolds biodegradation. In this study, the numerical analysis procedure and computer-based simulation were performed for the bone scaffolds with varying porosities in determining the wall shear stresses and the permeabilities along with their influences on the scaffolds biodegradation process while the bio-fluids flow through within followed with the change in the flow rates. Based on the experimental study by immersion testing from 0 to 72 hours of the time period, the specimens with different morphologies of the commercial bone scaffolds were collected into three groups samples of 30%, 41%, and 55% porosities. As the representative of the cancellous bone morphology, the morphological degradation was observed by using 3-D CAD scaffold models based on microcomputed tomography images. By applying the boundary conditions to the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) models, the wall shear stresses within the scaffolds due to fluid flow rates variation had been simulated and determined before and after degradation. The increase of fluid flow rates tends to raise the pressure drop for scaffold models with porosities lower than 50% before degradation. As the porosities increases, the pressure drop decreases with an increase in permeability within the scaffold. The flow rates have significant effects on scaffolds with higher pressure drops by introducing the wall shear stresses with the highest values and lower permeability. These findings indicate the importance of using accurate computational models to estimate shear stress and determine experimental conditions in perfusion bioreactors for tissue engineering more accurate results will be achieved to indicate the natural distributions of fluid flow velocity, wall shear stress, and pressure.


Author(s):  
A. V. Gukasyan

The analysis is carried out and the presence of a zone of a piston flow, which has a significant influence both on the process of extrusion, and on the determination of the discharge-pressure characteristics of the screw, is established. It is noted that the effective viscosity has a physical meaning if the shear rate to which it corresponds is indicated. The effective viscosity is considered to consist of two components: the plastic viscosity corresponding to the viscosity of the Newtonian fluid and the structural viscosity that characterizes the shear resistance caused by the tendency of the solid particles contained in the Bingham liquid to form a structure. The effective viscosity is introduced into many hydrodynamic equations if the shear rate to which it corresponds is known. In the auger channel there are zones of forced flow created by the dynamic shear stress and the reverse flow of the head resistance created by the overpressure. The shear rate in the auger channel is marked by considerable heterogeneity and determines the complex nature of the shear deformation of the material during extrusion. Regardless of the pressure amplitude, the rigid core can not completely disappear, because for very small dimensions of the nucleus the pressure value must be very large, and with the disappearance of the plastic flow it must become infinite. Thus, the dependence of the shear stress on the shear rate for the flow of a Bingham viscoplastic fluid is always nonlinear for any values of the shear rate. An important element in the calculation of the discharge-pressure characteristics of the extrusion process is the localization of the plastic flow in the screw channel. As a result of the analysis of the model of the layered flow of viscoplastic Bingham liquid in the extruder channel, it is established that there is a zone of piston flow that exerts a significant influence both on the process of extrusion and on the determination of the discharge and pressure characteristics of the screw.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Naaktgeboren ◽  
P. S. Krueger ◽  
J. L. Lage

The determination of permeability K and form coefficient C, defined by the Hazen-Dupuit-Darcy (HDD) equation of flow through a porous medium, requires the measurement of the total pressure drop caused by the porous medium (i.e., inlet, core, and outlet) per unit of porous medium length. The inlet and outlet pressure-drop contributions, however, are not related to the porous medium length. Hence, for situations in which these pressure drops are not negligible, e.g., for short or very permeable porous media core, the definition of K and C via the HDD equation becomes ambiguous. This aspect is investigated analytically and numerically using the flow through a restriction in circular pipe and parallel plates channels. Results show that inlet and outlet pressure-drop effects become increasingly important when the inlet and outlet fluid surface-fraction φ decreases and the Reynolds number Re increases for both laminar and turbulent flow regimes. A conservative estimate of the minimum porous medium length beyond which the core pressure drop predominates over the inlet and outlet pressure drop is obtained by considering a least restrictive porous medium core. Finally, modified K and C are proposed and predictive equations, accurate to within 2.5%, are obtained for both channel configurations with Re ranging from 10−2 to 102 and φ from 6% to 95%.


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