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The Carreau-Yasuda rheological model is widely employed in both research and industrial applications to describe the shear-thinning behaviour of non-Newtonian inelastic fluids. However, the model parameter traditionally employed to…
Shear-thinning fluids flowing through pipes are crucial in many practical applications, yet many unresolved problems remain regarding their turbulent transition. Using highly robust numerical tools for the Carreau-Yasuda model, we…
Linear stability of horizontal and inclined stratified channel flows of Newtonian/non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluids is investigated with respect to all wavelength perturbations. The Carreau model has been chosen for the modeling of the…
The steady Poiseuille flow of Carreau-Yasuda fluid in a pipe, caused by constant pressure gradient, is studied theoretically. It is proved that at some values of the viscosity model parameters, the problem has a classical solution, while at…
The unsteady Poiseuille flow of Carreau-Yasuda fluid in a pipe, caused by a variable pressure gradient, is studied theoretically. In a particular case, the steady flow is considered separately. It is proved that at some values of the…
Exact solutions for laminar stratified flows of Newtonian/non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluids in horizontal and inclined channels are presented. An iterative algorithm is proposed to compute the laminar solution for the general case of a…
Poiseuille flow in cylindrical and planar geometries with a simplified, pseudoplastic (shear thinning) rheology characterized by constant viscosity plateaus above and below a transition strain rate is considered. Analytical, steady state…
In this paper, analytical expressions correlating the volumetric flow rate to the pressure drop are derived for the flow of Carreau and Cross fluids through straight rigid circular uniform pipes and long thin slits. The derivation is based…
In this paper a problem of stationary flow of generalized Newtonian fluid in a thin channel is considered. An efficient algorithm of solution is proposed that includes a flexible procedure for a continuous approximation of the apparent…
A phase-field model for the Hele-Shaw flow of non-Newtonian fluids is developed. It extends a previous model for Newtonian fluids to a wide range of shear-dependent fluids. The model is applied to perform simulations of viscous fingering in…
We provide numerical simulations of an incompressible pressure-thickening and shear-thinning lubricant flowing in a plane slider bearing. We study the influence of several parameters, namely the ratio of the characteristic lengths…
We address the problem of steady laminar flow of a shear-thinning fluid in rectangular ducts, which is encountered in many systems, in particular, in microfluidic and biomedical devices. However, an exact solution for the flow of…
In this work, we present a comprehensive theoretical analysis for Virtual Element discretizations of incompressible non-Newtonian flows governed by the Carreau-Yasuda constitutive law, in the shear-thickening regime (r > 2) including both…
We provide an experimental framework to measure the flow rate--pressure drop relation for Newtonian and shear-thinning fluids in two common deformable configurations: (\textit{i}) a rectangular channel and (\textit{ii}) an axisymmetric…
The creeping flow of a generalized Newtonian fluid in a non--uniform pore throat is investigated analytically. The analytical solution determines the flow regimes and the transition point from Newtonian to the power law flow regime. As an…
This study investigates three-dimensional, steady-state, and non-Newtonian flows within a very thin porous medium (VTPM). The medium is modeled as a domain confined between two parallel plates and perforated by solid cylinders that connect…
In this paper, we consider the homogenization of evolutionary incompressible purely viscous non-Newtonian flows of Carreau-Yasuda type in porous media with small perforation parameter $0< \varepsilon \ll 1$, where the small holes are…
This study investigates the asymptotic behavior of the steady-state quasi-Newtonian Stokesflow with viscosity given by the Carreau law within a thin domain, focusing on the effects of a slightly rough boundary of the domain. Employing…
In the present study, Taylor bubble formation in two-phase gas-non-Newtonian Carreau liquid flowing through a confined co-flow microchannel is investigated. Systematic analysis are carried out to explore the influences of rheological…
Using the $\mu(I)$ continuum model recently proposed for dense granular flows, we study theoretically steady and fully developed granular flows in two configurations: a plane shear cell and a channel made of two parallel plates (Poiseuille…