Deformation of a Capsule in a Power-Law Shear Flow

Figure 8

Deformation of the flexible capsule in a shear flow for dimensionless shear rate of and 0.004, Reynolds number of , and power-law index of to 1.8: (a) capsule shapes for difference power-law indices at (the dashed line is for the Newtonian fluid case where ), (b) capsule shapes for difference power-law indices at , and (c) Taylor shape parameter as a function of power-law index. for is shown in (c) for comparison.

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