(151c) Sliding Drops of Generalized Newtonian Liquid
AIChE Annual Meeting
2008
2008 Annual Meeting
Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals
In Honor of Bud Homsy III: Stability and Nonlinear Hydrodynamics
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 3:45pm to 4:00pm
The lubrication approximation is invoked to model the sliding behavior of a drop of non-Newtonian liquid on a substrate with finite contact angle. Three dimensional
time-dependent simulations demonstrate
that, if the liquid is shear thinning, the tendency of the liquid stream to break up into small droplets is diminished.