Particulate/liquid electrically structured functional fluids - A computer fluid mechanics technique for engineering design

A method for the rapid solution of flows of electrically structured fluids of the particle/liquid type is described. The technique is indicated for he avily loaded fluids and for flows in complex controller geometries. Its bas is lies in the modification of a commercial computer routine which can deal with Bingham plastics, by the inclusion of a sub-routine which represents the ERF/MRS constitutive equations for a wide range of excitation. The enti re system of working is validated against known and well proven analytical and experimental results.