Recent advances in mechanics of non-Newtonian fluids

WT Wu, M Massoudi - Fluids, 2020 - mdpi.com
Flow of non-Newtonian (non-linear) fluids occurs not only in nature, for example, mud slides
and avalanches, but also in many industrial processes involving chemicals (polymers) …

A guide through available mixture theories for applications

V Klika - Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we discuss the approaches used in the theory of mixtures and provide a critical
review from a fresh perspective with the aim to identify limitations and open questions …

Steady flow of a cement slurry

C Tao, BG Kutchko, E Rosenbaum, WT Wu… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Understanding the rheological behavior of cement slurries is important in cement and
petroleum industries. In this paper, we study the fully developed flow of a cement slurry …

Study of blood flow in several benchmark micro-channels using a two-fluid approach

WT Wu, F Yang, JF Antaki, N Aubry… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
It is known that in a vessel whose characteristic dimension (eg, its diameter) is in the range
of 20–500 μm, blood behaves as a non-Newtonian fluid, exhibiting complex phenomena …

Numerical simulation of nanofluid suspensions in a geothermal heat exchanger

XH Sun, H Yan, M Massoudi, ZH Chen, WT Wu - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
It has been shown that using nanofluids as heat carrier fluids enhances the conductive and
convective heat transfer of geothermal heat exchangers. In this paper, we study the stability …

A Mixture Theory formulation for hydraulic or pneumatic transport of solid particles

M Massoudi - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, we discuss the importance of constitutive modeling of the stress tensors in
certain engineering issues, related to the pressure drop and skin friction, encountered in …

Natural convection and anisotropic heat transfer in a ferro-nanofluid under magnetic field

X Sun, M Massoudi, N Aubry, Z Chen, WT Wu - International Journal of Heat …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, effects of anisotropic thermal conductivity and the Lorentz force in a ferro-
nanofluid induced by external magnetic fields are investigated. The nanofluid is modeled as …

Identified charged particles in quark and gluon jets

DELPHI collaboration, P Abreu - … Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields, 2000 - Springer
A sample of 2.2 million hadronic Z decays, selected from the data recorded by the Delphi
detector at Lep during 1994–1995 was used for an improved measurement of inclusive …

A numerical study of blood flow using mixture theory

WT Wu, N Aubry, M Massoudi, J Kim… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the two dimensional flow of blood in a rectangular microfluidic
channel. We use Mixture Theory to treat this problem as a two-component system: One …

[HTML][HTML] Computational study of blood flow in microchannels

J Kim, JF Antaki, M Massoudi - Journal of computational and applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Using the Theory of Interacting Continua (Mixture Theory), blood is modeled as a
two-component mixture, namely, plasma and red blood cells (RBCs). The plasma is …