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Main Authors: Santesarti, Gianluca, Marino, Michele, Viola, Francesco, Verzicco, Roberto, Vairo, Giuseppe
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14991
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author Santesarti, Gianluca
Marino, Michele
Viola, Francesco
Verzicco, Roberto
Vairo, Giuseppe
author_facet Santesarti, Gianluca
Marino, Michele
Viola, Francesco
Verzicco, Roberto
Vairo, Giuseppe
contents This paper presents a quasi-analytical framework for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" fluids with a viscosity characterized by two constant plateau at low and high shear rates connected by a shear-thinning branch, and flowing in slightly tapered pipes. This setup is common in research and industrial applications since the last century, by assuming both a Newtonian or a non-Newtonian inelastic behaviour. Nevertheless, an analytical solution for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" fluids is still lacking. The expressions have been derived by using the order-of-magnitude analysis and neglecting the inertial terms in the momentum balance equations. The analytical solutions are employed to an extrusion bioprinting process as an application example, and verified through numerical procedures.
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spellingShingle A Quasi-Analytical Solution for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" Shear-thinning Fluids Flowing in Slightly Tapered Pipes
Santesarti, Gianluca
Marino, Michele
Viola, Francesco
Verzicco, Roberto
Vairo, Giuseppe
Fluid Dynamics
This paper presents a quasi-analytical framework for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" fluids with a viscosity characterized by two constant plateau at low and high shear rates connected by a shear-thinning branch, and flowing in slightly tapered pipes. This setup is common in research and industrial applications since the last century, by assuming both a Newtonian or a non-Newtonian inelastic behaviour. Nevertheless, an analytical solution for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" fluids is still lacking. The expressions have been derived by using the order-of-magnitude analysis and neglecting the inertial terms in the momentum balance equations. The analytical solutions are employed to an extrusion bioprinting process as an application example, and verified through numerical procedures.
title A Quasi-Analytical Solution for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" Shear-thinning Fluids Flowing in Slightly Tapered Pipes
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14991