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Wan, Z.-H., et al.: Dynamic Stability of Non-Dilute Fiber Shear Suspensions THERMAL SCIENCE, Year 2012, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 1551-1555 1551 DYNAMIC STABILITY OF NON-DILUTE FIBER SHEAR SUSPENSIONS by , and Chang-Bin WANG Zhan-Hong WANa*, Zhen-Jiang YOUb c a Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China b Australian School of Petroleum, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia c School of Petroleum Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China Short paper DOI: 10.2298/TSCI1205551W Temporal stability analysis of fiber suspended shear flow is performed. After in- troducing the second order structure tensor to determine the Folgar-Tucker in- ter-fiber interactions based on the Langevin’s equation, a system governing the flow stability is derived in conjunction with the fiber orientation closure. Effect of the inter-fiber interactions on the dynamic stability is studied by solving the gen- eral eigenvalue problem. Results show that fiber interaction has significant stabi- lizing effects on the flow. The most unstable wave number changes with the inte- raction coefficient. For given interaction coefficient, wave number and other re- levant parameters, there is a Re number which corresponds to the critical flow. This Re number is related to the wave number. Key words: interaction, stability, shear suspension, non-spherical particulate Introduction Suspension of particles can significantly change the flow field. It has been known that the suspensions of particles can significantly change the characteristics of the flow field [1], and the dispersed particles can either increase or decrease the flow instability under different cir- cumstances [2]. This paper addresses the hydrodynamic load on the solid fiber particles. Their constitutive behaviors are described using transversely isotropic fluid models originally derived by Ericksen [3]