Wall shear stress is an important quantity in fluid mechanics, but its measurement is a challenging task. An approach to measure wall shear stress vector distribution using shear-sensitive liquid crystal coating (SSLCC) is described. The wall shear s...
This paper presents an analytical method based on the shear flow distribution law to study the shear lag effect of thin-walled single- and double-cell box girders. The first step in this method is to determine the box girder’s shear flow distri...
Herein, the effect of the shear flow on the growth of columnar crystals in an undercooled melt is studied. The asymptotic method is used to solve the dynamic model for the growth of a columnar crystal. The resulting asymptotic solution shows that the...
In the chemical and petroleum industry, the axial flow pump is widely used for the circulation pipeline system, and most of the transportation mediums are the shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids. However, previous investigations on axial flow pumps a...
An experimental study is conducted on the surface shear stress vector distribution on a plate in a supersonic jet flow, with a focus on the separation region. The shear-sensitive liquid crystal coating (SSLCC) technique is employed for the flow visua...
The effect of shear flow on the morphological pattern of particles in an undercooled melt is studied by using the asymptotic method. The mathematical model of the particle includes the anisotropic interface kinetic undercooling. The asymptotic soluti...
Due to their nature, using shear thickening fluids (STFs) in engineering applications has sparked an interest in developing energy-dissipating systems, such as damping devices or shock absorbers. The Rheinforce technology allows the design of customi...
The coupling between hydraulic and mechanical processes in rock joints has significantly influenced the properties and applications of rock mass in many engineering fields. In this study, a series of regular shear tests and shear-flow coupled tests w...
The recent development of a superhydrophobic surface enhances the droplet shedding under a shear flow. The present study gives insights into the effects of shear flow on a pinned droplet over a superhydrophobic surface. To experimentally simulate the...
Catch bond, whose lifetime increases with applied tensile force, can often mediate rolling adhesion of cells in a hydrodynamic environment. However, the mechanical mechanism governing the kinetics of rolling adhesion of cells through catch-bond under...
In this article, we numerically investigate a two-dimensional (2D) droplet deformation and breakup in simple shear flow using a phase-field model for two-phase fluid flows. The dominant driving force for a droplet breakup in simple shear flow is the...
In this paper, we study how cyclonic and anticyclonic vortices adapt their shape and orientation to a background shear flow in an effort to understand geophysical vortices. Here we use a balanced model that incorporates the effects of rotation and de...
The damage caused by landslide disasters is very significant. Among them, landslides after forest fires have been widely concerned by scholars in recent years due to their particular physical and chemical properties. This large-scale shear flow of pa...
In the realm of abrasive flow machining (AFM), precise finishing and maintaining dimensional accuracy have remained challenging due to non-uniformities in the AFM process and complexities associated with the abrasive media’s shear viscosity and...
This paper presents an efficient and high-sensitive micro-sensor designed for wall shear stress measurement. The main technical application targeted is flow separation detection for closed-loop active flow control. The sensor is a temperature-resista...
To improve medical device hole inner wall quality and overcome issues of traditional abrasive flow methods—limited fluidity in small holes causing deformation due to high inner wall pressure, and slow processing with low viscosity abrasives&mda...
The liquid crystal-based method is a new technology developed for flow visualizations and measurements at microscale with great potentials. It is the priority to study the flow characteristics before implementation of such a technology. A numerical a...
A model test was carried out to reveal the vortex-induced vibration characteristics of a deep-sea riser under bidirectional shear flow. Bandpass filtering and modal analysis were used to process the test strain data, and the amplitude and frequency r...
The theory of surface wave generation, in viscous flows, is modified by replacing the linear-logarithmic shear velocity profile, in the air, with a model which links smoothly the linear and logarithmic layers through the buffer layer. This profile in...
The shear factor of ore drawing is an important factor affecting the formation of underground debris flows. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the mining shear factor on underground debris flows in natural caving. The research bac...
Modeling tribological contacts is commonly based on the Reynolds equation. This study discusses the validity of conventional, averaged Reynolds simulations for systems including starvation regimes. Two fundamental assumptions that are used as common...
In this study, the incipient motion of four groups of sand, ranging from medium to very coarse particles, was experimentally examined using an acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) in different water depths under the hydraulically transitional flow cond...
Considering that neurological injuries cannot typically self-recover, there is a need to develop new methods to study neuronal outgrowth in a controllable manner in vitro. In this study, a precise flow-controlled microfluidic system featuring custom-...
Using hybrid multi-particle collision dynamics (MPCD) and a molecular dynamics (MD) method, we investigate the effect of arms and shear flow on dynamical and structural properties of the comb long-chain branched (LCB) polymer with dense arms. Firstly...
The dynamics and rheology of a vesicle confined in a channel under shear flow are studied at finite temperature. The effect of finite temperature on vesicle motion and system viscosity is investigated. A two-dimensional numerical model, which include...
Understanding shear flow behavior in compressible, viscous, micropolar real gases is essential for both theoretical advancements and practical engineering applications. This study develops a comprehensive model that integrates micropolar fluid theory...
We investigated the shear banding phenomena in the non-isothermal simple-shear flow of a viscoelastic-fluid-based nanofluid (VFBN) subject to exothermic reactions. The polymeric (viscoelastic) behavior of the VFBN was modeled via the Giesekus constit...
Calibration parameters are developed for melt, shear modulus, and flow stress models for cerium subjected to dynamic loading. Parametric calibration is developed for the Lindemann melt law and for the shear modulus and flow stress models of Steinberg...
During mechanical stimulation-induced bone remodeling, interstitial fluid around microcracks may produce a flow field with gradient fluid shear stress (FSS). Osteoclast precursors can sense this gradient FSS and migrate toward the low FSS region. How...
An extended experimental method is presented in which the micro-pillar shear-stress sensor (MPS
To simulate the dynamical structures of stratified shear flows, the high-resolution Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) method is necessary and widely-used due to its high-order spatial accuracy, oscillation control, and ability to capture the well-def...
The morphological properties of kaolin flocs were investigated in a Couette-flow experiment at the steady state under seven shear flow conditions (shear rates of 5.36, 9.17, 14, 24, 31, 41 and 53 s−1). These properties include a one-dimensional (1-D)...
This study experimentally investigates the dynamic behavior and energy conversion characteristics of a single contaminated bubble (deq = 2.49–3.54 mm, Reb = 470–830) rising near a vertical wall (S* = 1.41–2.02) in a linear shear flo...
This study examines the invariance properties of the thermodynamic entropy production in its global (integral), local (differential), bilinear, and macroscopic formulations, including dimensional scaling, invariance to fixed displacements, rotations...
A numerical study was conducted on the interaction of bubbles with different diameters and arrangements in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids using OpenFOAM. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method combined with the surface tension model was used to track t...
The N1,N1ʹ-(ethane-1,2-diyl)bis(N2-phenyloxalamide) (OXA) is a soluble-type nucleator with a dissolving temperature of 230 °C in poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) matrix. The effect of thermal history and shear flow on the crystallization behavior of the PL...
The hydrodynamic properties of a squirmer type of self-propelled particle in a simple shear flow are investigated using the immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method in the range of swimming Reynolds number 0.05 ≤ Res ≤ 2.0, flow Reynolds numb...
This study experimentally investigated the effects of fracture surface roughness, normal stiffness, and initial normal stress on the shear-flow behavior of rough-walled rock fractures. A series of shear-flow tests were performed on two rough fracture...
Double-deck vibrating flip-flow screens have been widely used for the repurposing of decoration waste; however, the influence of shear spring stiffness on the screen’s vibration characteristics is under-researched. The shear spring stiffness affects...
A numerical simulation of the Herschel–Bulkley laminar steady state shear flow around a stationary particle located on a sedimentation layer was carried out. The surface of the sedimentation layer was formed by hemispheres of the same radius as...
This study investigates the Hagen–Poiseuille pipe flow of viscoplastic fluids, focusing on analytical predictions of concrete pumping using the shear-stress-dependent parabolic model, extending analytical studies to a nonlinear rheological mode...
An experimental technique was developed for two-dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurement of wall shear flow around a bubble growing under dissolved gas supersaturation. Carbonated water was used as dissolved-gas-supersaturated liquid,...
A new variant of MEMS surface fence is proposed for shear-stress estimation under high-speed, high-temperature flow conditions. Investigation of high-temperature resistance including heat-resistant mechanism and process, in conjunction with high-temp...
The startup and steady shear flow properties of an entangled, monodisperse polyethylene liquid (C1000H2002) were investigated via virtual experimentation using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. The simulations revealed a multifaceted dynamical respo...
This paper adopted numerical simulation based on the MD method to research the effect of different shear rates and wax contents on wax deposition focused on crude oil. The findings indicated that under shear flow conditions, there were primarily four...
Flow perfusion bioreactors have been extensively investigated as a promising culture method for bone tissue engineering, due to improved nutrient delivery and shear force-mediated osteoblastic differentiation. However, a major drawback impeding the t...
To address the problem of lignin membrane fouling caused by dynamic cross-flow in the process of retaining and concentrating the black liquor byproduct of papermaking, this paper uses three different rotating structures (vane, disk and propeller) to...
Due to the importance of wall shear stress effect and dust fluid in daily life fluid problems. This paper aims to discover the influence of wall shear stress on dust fluids of fluctuating flow. The flow is considered between two parallel plates that...
The concept of specific work of flow has been applied for the analysis of critical shearing conditions for the formation of crystal nuclei in poly (l-lactic acid) (PLLA). Systematic variation in both time and rate of shearing the melt in a parallel-p...
The extensive use of polypropylene (PP) in various industries has heightened interest in developing efficient methods for recycling and optimising its mixtures. This study focuses on formulating predictive models for the Melt Flow Rate (MFR) and shea...
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