CAPTURING A VISCOPLASTIC LIQUID BY A MOVING VERTICAL PLATE

Abstract

The liquid capture by a moving surface is the most widespread process in chemical engineering along with calendaring, extrusion moulding, pouring, and pressure moulding. The theoretical analysis of the medium capture by a moving surface, which allows revealing the fundamental physical principles and mechanisms of the process over the entire withdrawal speed range realized in practice, was performed for Newtonian, non-Newtonian, and viscoplastic liquids. However, such an analysis of the withdrawal of viscoplastic liquids with a finite yield was not made because of the features of these liquids. Shear flow of viscoplastic liquid is possible only after the stress exceeds its yield. This fact causes serious mathematical difficulties in stating and solving the problem. In the proposed work, such a theory is being developed for viscoplastic liquids.