The flow of a power-law fluid in the near-wake of a flat plate

摘要: The analysis of the near-wake flow downstream a flat plate is reported in this paper for case non-Newtonian (power-law) constitutive model. To our knowledge, present first to address problem, as previous work on near-wakes has been limited use Newtonian motivation comes from biomedical engineering problem blood around bileaflet mechanical heart valve. In paper, series method used calculate near centerline wake, while an asymptotic larger distances centerline. effects power-law inlet conditions wake are various values index n, within range 0.7≤n≤1.3. successfully validated by comparing results n=1 Goldstein [Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 26, 1 (1930)]. We generalized equations arbitrary without any ...