Depth of penetration characteristics of a submerged viscoplastic non-Newtonian jet were studied by numerically solving the governing mass and momentum conservation equations along with the Bingham rheological model. Momentum and velocity based jet depths of penetration were introduced and used to analyze the obtained steady and laminar flow field information for a wide range of Reynolds and yield numbers. Depths of penetration were found to linearly increase with the Reynolds number and substantially decrease with the yield number. Penetration depths of yield stress fluids were shown to be more than an order of magnitude smaller than the ones corresponding to Newtonian fluids.

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