A new method preserving the positive definiteness of a second order tensor variable in flow simulations with application to viscoelastic turbulence

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-241

  Housiadas, Kostas D ^a   Wang, Luo ^b   Beris, Antony N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD DIFFERENTIATION FORMULAE; BOUNDNESS; CAYLEY-HAMILTON THEOREM; CHAOTIC NATURE; COMPLEX FLUIDS; CONFORMATION TENSOR; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INTERNAL MICROSTRUCTURE; KEY ISSUES; MAXIMUM DRAG REDUCTIONS; MOLECULAR DEFORMATIONS; MULTI-GRID; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL STABILITIES; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; POSITIVE DEFINITE; POSITIVE DEFINITENESS; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER TENSORS; SPATIAL DEPENDENCE; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS; VISCOELASTIC FLOWS; WAVE NUMBERS;

CHANNEL FLOW; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAG; FLOW SIMULATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMBER THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TENSORS;

EID: 70350733479     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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