Anomalous pressure drop behaviour of mixed kinematics flows of viscoelastic polymer solutions: A multiscale simulation approach

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 631, Issue , 2009, Pages 231-253

  Koppol, Anantha P ^a   Sureshkumar, Radhakrishna ^a   Abedijaberi, Arash ^b   Khomami, Bamin ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; FLOW SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PRESSURE DROP; RHEOLOGY; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

AXISYMMETRIC CONTRACTION; EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY; MACROMOLECULAR CHAIN; MICROMECHANICAL MODEL; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION; MULTISCALE FLOW SIMULATIONS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

ALGORITHM; DRAG; FLUID MECHANICS; KINEMATICS; MICROMECHANICS; NEWTONIAN FLUID; SIMULATION; VORTEX;

EID: 69749125568     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006922     Document Type: Article

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