Flow of non-Newtonian fluids through helical coils

BA Mujawar, MR Roa - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 1978 - ACS Publications
Studies on isothermal frictional pressure drop were carried out for flow of water and several
pseudoplastic poly-mer solutions in helical coils of curvature ratios 0.0695, 0.0476, 0.0198 …

Analysis of laminar non‐Newtonian flow and heat transfer in curved tubes

CF Hsu, SV Patankar - AIChE Journal, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
The governing equations for the laminar fully developed flow and heat transfer in curved
tubes are solved numerically for a power‐law fluid. Results for the velocity and temperature …

Flow characteristics of power-law fluids in coiled flow inverter

J Singh, V Verma, KDP Nigam - Industrial & Engineering …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A novel device coiled flow inverter (CFI) has shown great potential as a heat exchanger and
inline mixer. The device offers negligible thermal and concentration gradient in the radial …

Laminar convection of non-Newtonian fluids in the thermal entrance region of coiled circular tubes

KDP Nigam, S Agarwal, VK Srivastava - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2001 - Elsevier
The governing equations for fully developed laminar flow and heat transfer in the thermal
entrance region of circular curved tubes are solved numerically for power law fluids …

Pressure drop for single and two‐phase flow of non‐newtonian liquids in helical coils

SK Bandaru, RP Chhabra - The Canadian Journal of Chemical …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
New experimental results on pressure loss for the single and two‐phase gas‐liquid flow with
non‐Newtonian liquids in helical coils are reported. For a constant value of the curvature …

Hybrid numerical methods combining discretized multidimensional and segmented-quasi-one-dimensional models for simulating thermofluid systems

A Lamoureux, BR Baliga - … Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to first present the key features of hybrid numerical
methods that enable cost-effective simulations of complex thermofluid systems, and then …

Momentum and heat transfer in Non-Newtonian fluids flowing through coiled tubes

Y Kawase, M Moo-Young - Industrial & engineering chemistry …, 1987 - ACS Publications
A simple approach to momentum and heat transfer in inelastic non-Newtonian fluids flowing
through coiled tubes is discussed. The proposed approach is based on the integral …

Laminar mass transfer between concentric rotating cylinders in the presence of Taylor vortices

Y Kawase, JJ Ulbrecht - Electrochimica acta, 1988 - Elsevier
Mass transfer in a liquid contained between two concentric rotating cylinders is discussed.
The role of Taylor vortices is simulated by a simple model based on the similarity between a …

Power law fluids in a circular curved tube. Part III. numerical simulation of laminar flow

S Agrawal, VK Srivastava, G Jayaraman… - Polymer-Plastics …, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
The equations of motion and continuity of a fully developed, steady-state, isothermal,
incompressible laminar flow of power law fluids within a toroidal-type coiled tube geometry …

Modeling heat transfer to non-Newtonian fluids in a double tube heat exchanger

EC Pereira, M Bhattacharya… - Transactions of the ASAE, 1989 - elibrary.asabe.org
ABSTRACT THE temperature distribution of non-Newtonian fluids in laminar flow heated in
a double tube heat exchanger was compared to predictions by analytical and numerical …