Pressure Loss of Turbulent Power law Fluid Flow  between Two Parallel Rough Plates

Master of Science, Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside, May 2016
Dr. Guanshui Xu, Chairperson

The  pressure  loss  of  turbulent  power  law  fluid  flow  between parallel  plates  has  been  theoretically  analyzed.  Using  Prandtl  mixing length  theory  and  Van  Karman  similarity  hypotheses  for  turbulent flow,  we  have  derived  a  new  friction  factor  formula  that  resembles previous  formula  for  turbulent  power  law  fluid  flow  in  rough  pipes. The new formula is also valid for the transition region between smooth and wholly rough wall turbulence.