Numerical approach to simulating turbulent flow a viscoelastic polymer solution

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Vaithianathan, T ^a   Collins, Lance R ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct numerical simulations; FENE; FENE P; Non Newtonian; Turbulence; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; VISCOELASTICITY;

CONFORMATION TENSOR; DIRECT-NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; EQUATION OF MOTION; FENE; FENE-P; NON-NEWTONIAN; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS; VISCOELASTICS;

TENSORS;

EID: 0037407206     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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