Hemingway, E.J. and Clarke, A. and Pearson, J.R.A. and Fielding, S.M. (2017) 'Thickening of viscoelastic flow in a model porous medium.', Journal of non-Newtonian fluid mechanics., 251 . pp. 56-68.
Abstract
We study numerically two-dimensional creeping viscoelastic flow past a biperiodic square array of cylinders within the Oldroyd B, FENE-CR and FENE-P constitutive models of dilute polymer solutions. Our results capture the initial mild decrease then dramatic upturn (‘thickening’) seen experimentally in the drag coefficient as a function of increasing Weissenberg number. By systematically varying the porosity of the flow geometry, we demonstrate two qualitatively different mechanisms underpinning this thickening effect: one that operates in the highly porous case of widely spaced obstacles, and another for more densely packed obstacles, with a crossover between these two mechanisms at intermediate porosities. We also briefly consider 2D creeping viscoelastic flow past a linear array of cylinders confined to a channel, where we find that the flow is steady for all Weissenberg numbers explored.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. File format - PDF (7741Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2017.11.002 |
Publisher statement: | © 2017 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Date accepted: | 11 November 2017 |
Date deposited: | 30 November 2017 |
Date of first online publication: | 13 November 2017 |
Date first made open access: | 13 November 2018 |
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