A method for the rapid solution of flows of electrically structured fluids of the particle/liquid type is described. The technique is indicated for heavily loaded fluids and for flows in complex controller geometries. Its basis lies in the modification of a commercial computer routine which can deal with Bingham plastics, by the inclusion of a sub-routine which represents the ERF/MRS constitutive equations for a wide range of excitation. The entire system of working is validated against known and well proven analytical and experimental results.
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