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A Newtonian fluid is a power-law fluid with a behaviour index of 1, where the shear stress is directly proportional to the shear rate: = These fluids have a constant viscosity, μ, across all shear rates and include many of the most common fluids, such as water, most aqueous solutions, oils, corn syrup, glycerine, air and other gases.
The predictions of the first three models (hard-sphere, power-law, and Sutherland) can be simply expressed in terms of elementary functions. The Lennard–Jones model predicts a more complicated T {\displaystyle T} -dependence, but is more accurate than the other three models and is widely used in engineering practice.
This book contains several examples of different non-dimensionalizations and scalings of the Navier–Stokes equations, see p. 430. Krantz, William B. (2007). Scaling Analysis in Modeling Transport and Reaction Processes: A Systematic Approach to Model Building and the Art of Approximation. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471772613.
Other examples include many polymer solutions (which exhibit the Weissenberg effect), molten polymers, many solid suspensions, blood, and most highly viscous fluids. Newtonian fluids are named after Isaac Newton , who first used the differential equation to postulate the relation between the shear strain rate and shear stress for such fluids.
The use of the word "law" in referring to the Glen-Nye model of ice rheology may obscure the complexity of factors which determine the range of viscous ice flow parameter values even within a single glacier, as well as the significant assumptions and simplifications made by the model itself. [13] [14] [7]
Under certain circumstances, flows of granular materials can be modelled as a continuum, for example using the μ rheology. Such continuum models tend to be non-Newtonian, since the apparent viscosity of granular flows increases with pressure and decreases with shear rate. The main difference is the shearing stress and rate of shear.
The simplest model of the dense fluid viscosity is a (truncated) power series of reduced mole density or pressure. Jossi et al. (1962) [14] presented such a model based on reduced mole density, but its most widespread form is the version proposed by Lohrenz et al. (1964) [15] which is displayed below.
In rheology, shear thinning is the non-Newtonian behavior of fluids whose viscosity decreases under shear strain. It is sometimes considered synonymous for pseudo- plastic behaviour, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and is usually defined as excluding time-dependent effects, such as thixotropy .