Recent Advances in Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows and Pumping of Concrete
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 4159
Special Issue Editors
2. Laboratory of Computational Materials Science, Center for Energy and Advanced Materials Science, National Laboratory Astana, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
Interests: transport processes; composite materials; macromolecular theory and simulations; computational molecular and materials research
2. National Centre for International Research on Green Metal Mining, Beijing 102628, China
Interests: rheological properties; non-Newtonian fluid; cement-based materials; pipeline transportation; cemented filling materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and materials processing are inexorably intertwined. Interest in paints, plastics, ceramic pastes, lubricants, and other industrial fluids led to the founding of the Society of Rheology in December 1929. Flow is essential to characterizing many rheological properties of a fluid and is also ubiquitous in materials processing, manufacturing, and product development.
This Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows and Pumping of Concrete” seeks high-quality research or review articles focusing on non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and the materials processing of yield-stress fluids. Yield-stress fluids are encountered in a wide range of applications: the pumping of concrete and mortar, 3D concrete printing, the handling of drilling fluids, sludge treatment and disposal, oil-well cementing, filling slurry, toothpaste, foam, mud, mayonnaise, etc. Among them, concrete is used more than any other man-made material in the world and is irreplaceable for innumerable large infrastructure developments. The pumping of concrete is one of the most common practices in the field of construction and is a common step in digital fabrication techniques with concrete and other cementitious materials, such as 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP). However, a fundamental understanding of the interrelations of non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and the processing of concrete and other similar fluids remains an active area of research. This Special Issue welcomes topics including, but not limited to:
- Rheological properties of cement-based materials, filling slurry, drilling fluids, sewage sludge, muds, etc.
- 3D concrete/slurry printing processes.
- Flow behavior of concrete during pumping and/or 3D printing.
- Pumping prediction models and validations.
- Interrelations of non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, rheology, and the processing of concrete and other similar fluids.
- Test methods to characterize concrete rheology and lubrication layer properties.
- Changes in materials properties induced by pumping/processing.
- Long-distance slurry pipeline transportation and filling processes.
- Active rheology control and the design of yield-stress fluids.
- Data-driven and/or physics-driven methods for Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows.
- Digital twins for non-Newtonian fluids.
- Advances in experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of yield-stress fluids.
- New technologies and perspectives in Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows and the processing of yield-stress fluids.
Dr. Yanwei Wang
Dr. Mengyuan Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-Newtonian fluids
- pipe flow
- transport processes
- concrete
- filling slurry
- rheology
- thixotropy, tribology
- elasto-viscoplastic flows
- flowability
- 3D printing
- polymer/particle-based processing
- active rheology control
- digital twins
- experimental
- computational
- particle migration
- lubrication layer
- automation and digital transformation
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