Stress Analysis of Pseudo-Plastic Flow Between Rotating Cylinders

Abstract

Stress analysis of Pseudo-Plastic flow between rotating cylinders is studied in the narrow gap limit. The Galerkin projection method is used to derive dynamical system from the conservation of mass and momentum equations. Flow parameters were obtained using IMSL and also verified by Mathematica Software. Stresses are computed in a wide range of the Pseudo-Plastic effects. Azimuthal stress was found to be far greater than other stress components. All stress components increased as Pseudo-Plasticity decreased. Furthermore, complete stress and viscosity maps are presented for different scenarios in the flow regime.