(300h) Joule Heating Effect on the Hydrodynamic Behavior of Eyring Fluids and on the Relative Importance of the Driving Forces

This contribution focuses on the study of the hydrodynamics triggered by Joule heating and viscous forces on a non-Newtonian type of fluids. Furthermore, this analysis concentrates on the carrier fluid problem and the computation of the hydrodynamic velocity profile by application of the Taylor's expansion series as a strategic solution procedure for the conservation of momentum equation and the rheology given by the ?hyperbolic sine? or Eyring model. Such a profile is examined under a variety of parameter conditions and its influence on different flow possibilities, determined. The realistic implications of considering batch and continuous applications to, for example, electrophoresis devices with Joule heating are also discussed. The effects of the system parameters on the relative balance of the different advective driving forces are also analyzed and their results reported.