FM7_12708
XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Natural Convection of Pseudoplastic Fluids

Strek Tomasz, Uscilowska Anita
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland


The numerical experiment of the transient natural convection in two-dimensional cavity with non-Newtonian fluid is presented. In non-Newtonian viscosity models it is assumed that the laminar viscosity can be expressed as a continuous function of the strain rate. The present work is based on the power law model, which is the most popular non-Newtonian viscosity models. The results of numerical experiments of natural convection in two-dimensional cavity with Newtonian or non-Newtonian are presented.



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