Abstract
The industrial process of coating flat surfaces with polymeric substances is numerically simulated by solving the full equations of motion for a flow through a contraction with a moving boundary. The four-constant Oldroyd constitutive equation is used to represent the viscoelastic fluid.
Some adjustments to existing finite-difference methods are made in such a way as to avoid singular iterative matrices during the solution process.
Results are presented for flow situations with Weissenberg numbers up to about three times larger than any previously published results for this problem.
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Bhatnagar, R.K., Perera, M.G.N. & Strauß, K. Flow of an Oldroyd-fluid in a contracting channel with a moving boundary. Rheol Acta 22, 268–274 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01359126
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