Simulation of viscoelastic flows of polymer solutions in abrupt contractions using an arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) based finite element method

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 143, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 157-169

  Ganvir, Vivek ^a,b   Lele, Ashish ^c   Thaokar, Rochish ^b   Gautham, B P ^a  

^a TATA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTRE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Abrupt contraction; Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian; Finite element; Simulations

Indexed keywords

EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STEADY FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ABRUPT CONTRACTION; ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN (ALE); PHAN THIEN TANNER (PTT);

POLYMER SOLUTIONS;

EULER EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; STEADY FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 34247153141     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2007.02.009     Document Type: Article

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