Rheological characteristics of Al2O3, CuO and TiO2 nano particles were investigated in oil asthe base fluid at 1 and 2 wt.%. Constitutive relations for non-Newtonian fluid were discussedbased on the power-law model. Measured viscosities of each nanofluid were used to evaluatethe power-law and consistency index. Results indicated that the nanofluid viscosity decreasedby increasing the concentrat...

Objective(s): One applications of nanotechnology is in the area of medicine which is called nanomedicine. Primary instruments in nanomedicine can help us to detect diseases and used for drug delivery to inaccessible areas of human tissues. An important issue in simulating the motion of nanoparticles is modeling blood flow as a Newtonian or non-Newtonian fluid. Sometimes blood flow is simulated ...

in the present study, the production of dextran from date extract and sucrose as carbon sources by the bacterium leuconostoc mesenteroides nrrl b512 (f) was investigated. in comparison to blue dextran (mw≈2000 da), dextran molecular weight was reduced (mw2000 kda). flow behavior indices of dextran solutions from date extracts were investigated and rheological parameters were evaluated at concen...

There are many assumptions that have been considered when describing black liquor droplet combustion. These include assuming an isothermal particle, a constant diameter particle, inert inorganic species, and one-film diffusion model. This paper shows the effects of systematically relaxing these factors for a 1-D spherical model for black liquor combustion. The flame is described using boundary ...

Various scaling methods such as relative viscosity, Peclet and Reynolds scaling were used to find the best scaling law. Scaling and modeling of the flow curves of various model emulsions consist of Tragacanth Gum (TG) (0.5, 1 % wt), Oleic acid (5, 10% v/v) and WPI (2, 4 % wt) were investigated and the best models were selected. As these emulsions are non-Newtonian, they do not obey the usual...

this paper introduces an indirect adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller as a power system stabilizer for damping local and inter-area modes of oscillations of multi-machine power systems. this controller is designed based on the combination of sliding mode controller and the fuzzy logic systems. the fuzzy systems are used to approximate the unknown functions of power system model. generator sp...