While significant research has been dedicated to the simulation of fluids, not much attention has been given to exploring new interesting behavior that can be generated with the different types of non-Newtonian fluids with non-constant viscosity. Going in this direction, this paper introduces a computational model for simulating the interesting phenomena observed in non-Newtonian shear thickeni...

We consider two problems in complex fluids: (i) thickening of thin films in the Landau-Levich problem [1] of dip coating and in motion of long bubbles in capillary tubes [2]. In both of these problems, thickening of thin films is observed experimentally in the presence of interfacial surfactants which has been confirmed experimentally. Considering small concentration of insoluble surfactants at...