Abstract
This chapter develops the concept of momentum transfer into a treatment of the flow of fluids over surfaces and in pipes and ducts. A later chapter will deal with the behaviour of food particles in a fluid stream. Many foods are of course liquid and the study of fluid flow, or fluid mechanics, is necessary to understand how fluids are transported, how they can be pumped, mixed and so on. The high viscosity of many liquid foods means that laminar flow is particularly important. However, very many foodstuffs are non-Newtonian and later sections of this chapter cover a wide variety of rheological models; these are treated as mathematical descriptions of physical behaviour with the objective of enabling the reader to apply models to experimental data in order to determine whether or not they can be used predictively.
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Abbreviations
- A :
-
Cross-sectional area
- A o :
-
Cross-sectional area of orifice or venturi throat
- c f :
-
Friction factor
- C D :
-
Discharge coefficient
- C 1 :
-
Parameter in Ellis model
- C 2 :
-
Parameter in Ellis model
- C 3 :
-
Parameter in Casson model
- d :
-
Diameter
- d e :
-
Hydraulic mean diameter
- d i :
-
Inner diameter of annulus
- d o :
-
Outer diameter of annulus
- De :
-
Deborah number
- e :
-
Magnitude of surface roughness
- g :
-
Acceleration due to gravity
- G :
-
Shear modulus
- h :
-
Head loss
- h F :
-
Head loss due to friction
- h m :
-
Manometer height difference
- h ′ :
-
Height
- \({k_1},{k_2},{k_3}\) :
-
Coefficients in power series
- K :
-
Consistency coefficient
- l :
-
Separation of layers in simple shear
- L :
-
Length; characteristic length
- m :
-
Mass flow rate
- n :
-
Flow behaviour index
- N :
-
Parameter in Ellis model
- NPSH:
-
Net positive suction head
- p ′ :
-
Pure component vapour pressure
- P :
-
Pressure
- r :
-
Radius
- r a :
-
Arithmetic mean radius
- R :
-
Shear stress
- R 0 :
-
Initial shear stress
- R Y :
-
Yield stress
- Re :
-
Reynolds number
- t :
-
Time
- u :
-
Mean velocity
- u r :
-
Velocity at a radius r
- u t :
-
Terminal falling velocity
- V :
-
Volumetric flow rate
- Z :
-
Height above datum
- γ :
-
Displacement angle in simple shear
- \(\dot \gamma\) :
-
Shear rate
- \({\dot \gamma _{{\textrm{wall}}}}\) :
-
Wall shear rate
- ΔP :
-
Pressure drop
- Δh :
-
Total head
- θ :
-
Cone angle
- μ :
-
Viscosity
- μ a :
-
Apparent viscosity
- μ p :
-
Plastic viscosity
- ρ :
-
Density
- \({\rho _{{\textrm{av}}}}\) :
-
Average density
- υ :
-
Specific volume
- τ :
-
Torque; time constant
- ϖ :
-
Angular velocity
- A:
-
Fluid A
- B:
-
Fluid B
- i:
-
Inner
- o:
-
Outer
- s:
-
Solid
Further Reading
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Smith, P. (2011). The Flow of Food Fluids. In: Introduction to Food Process Engineering. Food Science Text Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7662-8_6
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