Non-Newtonian and Gas-non–Newtonian Liquid Flow through Elbows – CFD Analysis

Authors

1 Chemical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Agartala

2 Chemical Engineering Department, University of Calcutta, 92 A. P. C. Road, Kolkata – 700 009, India

Abstract

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis for the flow of non-Newtonian and gas-non-Newtonian liquid through elbows is presented. The commercial software Fluent 6.3 has been used for the simulation. Laminar non-Newtonian pseudoplastic power law model has been used for the simulation of non-Newtonian liquid flow through elbows. For twophase flow Elurian-Elurian approach has been used for simulation. The CFD analysis have been tested from our previously published experimental results, Bandyopadhyay and Das (2007), Bandyopadhyay et al. (2000).

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