Título: Journal of Computational PhysicsImportada do Authenticus Pesquisar Publicações da Revista

Vol. 227

Páginas: 4207-4243

ISSN: 0021-9991

Editora: Elsevier

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CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas

ID Authenticus: P-004-0JQ

DOI: 10.1016/j.cp.2007.12.023

Abstract (EN): This work presents a numerical technique for simulating incompressible, isothermal, viscoelastic flows of fluids governed by the upper-convected Maxwell (UCM) and K-BKZ (Kaye-Bernstein, Kearsley and Zapas) integral models. The numerical technique described herein is an extension of the GENSMAC method to the solution of the momentum and mass conservation equations to include integral constitutive equations. The governing equations are solved by the finite difference method on a staggered grid using a Marker-and-Cell approach. The Finger tensor B-t' (t) is computed in an Eulerian framework using the ideas of the deformation fields method. However, improvements to the deformation fields method are introduced: the Finger tenser B-t' (x, t) is obtained by a second-order accurate method and the stress tensor tau(x, t) is computed by a second-order quadrature formula. The numerical method presented in this work is validated by comparing the predictions of velocity and stress fields in two-dimensional fully-developed channel flow of a Maxwell fluid with the corresponding analytic solutions. Furthermore, the flow through a planar 4:1 contraction is investigated and the numerical results were compared with the corresponding experimental data. Finally, the UCM and the K-BKZ models were used to simulate the planar 4:1 contraction flow over a wide range of Reynolds and Weissenberg numbers and the numerical results obtained are in agreement with published data.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 37