What is Shear Flow? Does it Impact Viscosity?

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germana2006

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Apr 5, 2007

What is shear flow? Hat this flow viscosity? ....

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siddharth

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Apr 6, 2007

Shear flow in a solid, liquids, granular particles ...? You need to be more specific.

Claude Bile

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Apr 9, 2007

Shear generally means parallel to a plane of reference - typically a surface of some sort.

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germana2006

Apr 10, 2007

I want to know only what it means shear flow, for example in a rectangular tube with a sphere particle. And then if there are viscosity or not.

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