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The rotating rod viscometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

G. S. Beavers and
D. D. Joseph
G. S. Beavers
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
D. D. Joseph
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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Abstract

This paper reports the development of practical methods of viscometry to characterize non-Newtonian fluids in slow flow. It is shown that measurements of the free surface near rods rotating in STP and polyacrylamide are accurate, reproducible, and in excellent agreement with a theory of rod climbing. Results are presented that establish the theory and experiment as a viscometer for determining the values of certain (Rivlin-Ericksen) constants that arise in the theory of slow flow. The variation of these constants with temperature in our sample of STP has been explicitly and accurately determined. The experiments in STP show that there is a range of rotational speeds for which STP may be well described by the fluids of grade four. Depth-averaged equations are derived from the equations governing steady axisymmetric flow of any incompressible simple fluid. From the depth-averaged equations, we prove a theorem about the variation of the torque required to turn the rod.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , 10 June 1975, pp. 475 - 511
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© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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