Particle-wall collision in shear thinning fluids

A. Stocchino, M. Guala

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Abstract

The present study deals with the measurements of the impact w i and rebound w r velocities of steel particles in different fluids colliding with a rigid wall. The results are presented in terms of the coefficient of restitution e=w r/w i as a function of the Stokes number (ratio between the particle inertia and the viscous forces). We focus the attention on possible differences between rebounds that occur in Newtonian fluids and in non-Newtonian, shear thinning fluids. The measurements of wet coefficients of restitution in Newtonian fluid are in good agreement with the experimental data found by Gondret et al. (2002). In the range of Stokes number investigated, an increase of the coefficient of restitution with the shear thinning fluid is clearly observed with respect to the Newtonian data. Particular attention has been dedicated to techniques of image processing to perform an optimal estimation of the particle centroid in highly noisy images.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)476-484
Number of pages9
JournalExperiments in Fluids
Volume38
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2005
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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