Polymer chain dynamics in Newtonian and viscoelastic turbulent channel flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1546-1566

  Gupta, V K ^a   Sureshkumar, R ^a   Khomami, B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

CHAIN DYNAMICS; DRAG REDUCTION (DR); RENORMALIZATION;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; NEWTONIAN FLUID; POLYMER; TURBULENCE; VISCOELASTIC FLOW;

EID: 2442671420     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1687415     Document Type: Article

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