Author(s)

Luis Jorge Corzo-Ríos¹, Ma. Eugenia Ramírez Ortiz², José Luis Velázquez-Ortega²

¹Instituto Politécnico Nacional-UPIBI, México City, México.
²CIT-FESC, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuautitlán Izcalli, México.

From results obtained in the rheological characterization of a 4% dispersion of flamboyant gum with the HaakeRT20 viscometer, for different conditions of pH = 3.0 and 9.0, temperature 5°C, 25°C and 45°C, the data of the rheological behavior of the gum dispersions were fitted to the power law model. To understand and predict the behavior of this gum, a model of Lattice Boltzmann D2Q9 was developed for the behavior, in addition to simulations for the conditions handled in the experiments performed with the HaakeRT20 viscometer.

Lattice Boltzmann, Power Law Fluids, Shear Stress, Shear Rate Flamboyant Gums

Corzo-Ríos, L. , Ortiz, M. and Velázquez-Ortega, J. (2019) Simulation of Flamboyant Gums (Power Fluid) with the Lattice Boltzmann Method. Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics, 9, 193-205. doi: 10.4236/ojfd.2019.92013.