Direct Determination of the Flow Curves of Non-Newtonian Fluids. II. Shearing Rate in the Concentric Cylinder Viscometer

Abstract

Another method has been developed for obtaining the rate of shear vs shearing stress curves of non-Newtonian fluids from concentric cylinder viscometer data. The mathematical expression developed is a rapidly converging power series in lns, where s is the cup to bob radius ratio. An estimate of error shows that under favorable conditions only two terms of the series are significant, and that terms past the third will hardly ever be needed.