Numerical simulations of the competition between the effects of inertia and viscoelasticity on particle migration in Poiseuille flow

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 107, Issue , 2015, Pages 214-223

  Trofa, Marco ^a   Vocciante, Marco ^b   D'Avino, Gaetano ^a   Hulsen, Martien A ^c   Greco, Francesco ^d   Maffettone, Pier Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inertia; Microfluidics; Numerical simulations; Particle migration; Poiseuille flow; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROFLUIDICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN FORMULATIONS; FINITE REYNOLDS NUMBER; INERTIA; MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS; PARTICLE MIGRATION; POISEUILLE FLOW; STABILIZATION TECHNIQUES;

VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84913591315     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2014.11.015     Document Type: Article

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