Acta Polytechnica (Oct 2015)

UNSTEADY FLOW OF THIXOTROPIC COLLAGEN SUBSTANCE IN PIPES

  • Rudolf Žitný,
  • Aleš Landfeld,
  • Jan Skočilas,
  • Jaromír Štancl,
  • Vlastimil Flegl,
  • Milan Houška

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14311/AP.2015.55.0352
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 5
pp. 352 – 358

Abstract

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Unsteady flow of thixotropic liquid in pipes is solved by 1D and 2D numerical methods using the same constitutive equation — the only difference is in the radial diffusion of the structural parameter. Comparison shows that the neglected diffusion of structural parameter implicates a much stronger effect of thixotropy. The models are applied for analysis of the observed hysteresis of hydraulic characteristic of collagen.

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