Study of shear-thinningthickening effects on plane Couette-Poiseuille flow with uniform crossflow.pdf

Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed., 35(5), 549–566 (2014) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-014-1812-6 and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 (English Edition) Study of shear-thinning/thickening effects on plane Couette-Poiseuille flow with uniform crossflow∗ Yu-quan LIU (), Ke-qin ZHU () (Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China) Abstract The shear-thinning/thickening effects on the plane Couette-Poiseuille flow with a uniform crossflow are studied. The detailed solution procedures for both theo- retical and numerical purposes are given. In order to clarify the difference between the Newtonian flow and the power-law flow, all cases of the plane Couette-Poiseuille flows with uniform crossflows for different power indexes are assigned to the phase diagram in the parameter plane corresponding to the Couette number and the crossflow Reynolds number. The effects of shear-thinning/thickening on the phase diagram are discussed. An important feature of the shear-thinning circumstance distinguished from the shear- thickening circumstance is discovered. Key words Couette-Poiseuille flow, crossflow, power-law fluid, phase diagram Chinese Library Classification O357.1 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification 76A05 Nomenclature x, y , dimensional spatial coordinates; x, y , dimensionless spatial coordinates; dp/dx, pressure gradient; h, half ch