Wall shear rate distribution for flow in random sphere packings |
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Authors: | Warren Patrick B Stepanek Frantisek |
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Institution: | Unilever R&D Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral, CH63 3JW, United Kingdom. |
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Abstract: | The wall shear rate distribution P(gamma) is investigated for pressure-driven Stokes flow through random arrangements of spheres at packing fractions 0.1< or =varphi< or =0.64. For dense packings, P(gamma) is monotonic and approximately exponential. As varphi-->0.1, P(gamma) picks up additional structure which corresponds to the flow around isolated spheres, for which an exact result can be obtained. A simple expression for the mean wall shear rate is presented, based on a force-balance argument. |
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