Numerical approximation of corotational dumbbell models for dilute polymers

IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 937-959

  Barrett, John W ^a   Süli, Endre ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Existence of weak solutions; FENE; Fokker Planck equations; Galerkin methods; Navier Stokes equations; Polymeric flow models

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GALERKIN METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TENSORS; VISCOUS FLOW;

EXISTENCE OF WEAK SOLUTIONS; FENE; FINITELY EXTENSIBLE NONLINEAR ELASTICS; FLOW MODEL; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; PASSAGE TO THE LIMIT; TEMPORAL DISCRETIZATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 71049139773     PISSN: 02724979     EISSN: 14643642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imanum/drn022     Document Type: Article

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