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Publication 17-CNA-007

Heat transfer and flow of a dense suspension between two cylinders

We-Tao Wu
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
weitaow@andrew.cmu.edu

Zhi-Fu Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an 710049, China

Nadine Aubry
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
n.aubry@northeastern.edu

James F. Antaki
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
antaki@cmu.edu

Mehrdad Massoudi
Center for Nonlinear Analysis
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
and
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
U.S. Department of Energy
626 Cochrans Mill Road, P.O. Box 10940
Pittsburgh, PA 15236
massoudi@netl.doe.gov

Abstract: Concentrated suspensions, composed of solid particles and fluids, are used in many industrial applications. In this paper, we study the effects of temperature on the flow of a concentrated (dense) suspension between two long rotating cylinders. The viscosity of the suspension is assumed to depend on temperature and volume fraction of the solid particles. Based on these concepts, a generalized viscosity model is proposed and the model parameters are fitted with experimental data. The numerical results show good agreement with the available experimental measurements.

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