Laminar flow of non-Newtonian shear-thinning fluids in a T-channel

Abstract Flow characteristics of non-Newtonian power-law fluids in a right-angled horizontal T-channel are studied in the laminar regime. In particular, the two-dimensional numerical computations are performed using Ansys Fluent for the following range of physical parameters: Reynolds number (Re) = 5–200 and power-law index (n) = 0.2–1 (covering shear-thinning, n

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