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A finite volume technique to simulate the flow of a viscoelastic fluid

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Hydrodynamically developing flow of Oldroyd B fluid in the planar die entrance region has been investigated numerically using SIMPLER algorithm in a non-uniform staggered grid system. It has been shown that for constant values of the Reynolds number, the entrance length increases as the Weissenberg number increases. For small Reynolds number flows the center line velocity distribution exhibit overshoot near the inlet, which seems to be related to the occurrence of numerical breakdown at small values of the limiting Weissenberg number than those for large Reynolds number flows. The distributions of the first normal stress difference display clearly the development of the flow characteristics from extensional flow to shear flow.

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Abbreviations

D:

rate of strain tensor

L :

slit halfheight

P :

pressure, indeterminate part of the Cauchy stress tensor

R:

the Reynolds number

t :

time

U :

average velocity in the slit

u:

velocity vector

u,v :

velocity components

W :

the Weissenberg number based on the difference between stress relaxation time and retardation time

W 1 :

the Weissenberg number based on stress relaxation time

x,y :

rectangular Cartesian coordinates

ε:

ratio of retardation time to stress relaxation time

η:

zero-shear-rate viscosity, η1 + η2

η1 :

non-Newtonian contribution to η

η2 :

Newtonian contribution to η

λ1 :

stress relaxation time

λ2 :

retardation time

ϱ:

density

(σ, γ, τ):

xx, yy and xy components of τ1, respectively

τ:

determinate part of the Cauchy stress tensor

τ1 :

non-Newtonian contribution to τ

τ2 :

Newtonian contribution to τ

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, 151-742, Seoul, Korea

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Communicated by J. Y. Yoo, September 13, 1990

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Na, Y., Yoo, J.Y. A finite volume technique to simulate the flow of a viscoelastic fluid. Computational Mechanics 8, 43–55 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370547

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