Direct numerical simulation of the turbulent channel flow of a polymer solution

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 743-755

  Sureshkumar, R ^a   Beris, Antony N ^a   Handler, Robert A ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; NEWTONIAN FLOW; POLYMERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW;

DRAG REDUCTION; FINITELY EXTENSIBLE NONLINEAR ELASTIC PETERLIN DUMBBELL MODEL; THICKENING; TIME SPLITTING TECHNIQUE; WEISSENBERG NUMBERS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

PIPE FLOW; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; SIMULATION-NUMERICAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; MODELLING; POLYMER SOLUTION; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOW;

EID: 0031104623     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869229     Document Type: Article

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