RESEARCH ARTICLE
Determination of the Thickness of a Power-Law Fluid Driven by the Penetration of a Long Gas Bubble in a Rectangular Channel Using a Singular Perturbation Method
C. Escobar1, F. Méndez*, 1, E. Luna2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 89
Last Page: 96
Publisher ID: TOCENGJ-2-89
DOI: 10.2174/1874123100802010089
Article History:
Received Date: 01/04/2008Revision Received Date: 06/06/2008
Acceptance Date: 01/07/2008
Electronic publication date: 18/7/2008
Collection year: 2008
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Abstract
In the present work an analytical and numerical study is presented in order to determine the residual fluid film thickness of a power-law fluid on the walls of a rectangular horizontal channel when it is displaced by another immiscible fluid of negligible viscosity. The mathematical model describes the motion of the displaced fluid and the interface between both fluids. In order to obtain the residual film thickness, m , we used a singular perturbation technique: the matching asymptotic method; in the limit of small capillary number, Ca . The main results indicated that the residual film thickness of the non-Newtonian fluid decreases for decreasing values of the power-law index, which is in qualitative agreement with experimental results.