VISCOSITY EXPERIMENT

Nada Surf - Jemal Fondel, Blake Miller, Steven Smelley &

Krishane Suresh

 Viscosity - a property of a fluid to resist the rate

of deformation; a quantitative measure of a
fluids resistance to flow
Significance:
Crucial for ChemEs to be able to predict the flow
behavior of liquids and viscosity affects it
Viscosity defines how fluids behave whether it be oil
in pipelines or blood in veins and capillaries

Foster, D. Fluid Dynamics Viscosity. Available at: http://www.che.rochester.edu/users/dafoster/ChE243/Fluid%20Dynamics%20Viscosity.pdf

(Accessed: 16 September 2015).

 Newtons Law of Viscosity:

Shear Stress = Viscosity*Shear Rate
Slope = Viscosity
Shear Stress - the shear force (which acts
parallel to the direction of flow) per unit
area
Shear Rate - a.k.a. velocity gradient
(dv/dy); deformation of a fluid under the
influence of an applied shear force

Viscosity Neutrium (2012) Available at: https://neutrium.net/fluid_flow/viscosity/ (Accessed:

17 September 2015).

 Types of Fluids:
Newtonianindependent of shear force
Constant Viscosity the resistance to flow is directly proportional
to the motion of the fluid
For incompressible fluids, viscosity depends only on T

Non-Newtoniandependent on shear force

Shear Thinning
Shear Thickening
Schaschke, C. (2014) Dictionary of Chemical Engineering. 1st edn. Oxford: Oxford
university press.

Objectives:

Equipment & Procedure

Analysis