The motion and deformation of a non-Newtonian shear-thinning drop suspended in a
Newtonian circular Couette flow is studied using a boundary element numerical simulation.
Non-linear effects from the dependency of the viscosity on the velocity field are treated in an
implicit manner and the resultant domain integral is transformed into an equivalent series of
boundary integrals using the Dual Reciprocity Method. The non-homogeneous (non-linear)
system of algebraic equations resulting from the discretization of the boundary element …