Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2020
Publication Title
Physics of Fluids
Abstract
Three-dimensional numerical simulations of viscoelastic fluids in the Stokes limit with a four-roll mill background force (extended to the third dimension) were performed. Both the Oldroyd-B model and FENE-P model of viscoelastic fluids were used. Different temporal behaviors were observed depending on the Weissenberg number (non-dimensional relaxation time), model, and initial conditions. Temporal dynamics evolve on long time scales, and simulations were accelerated by using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Previously, parameter explorations and long-time simulations in 3D were prohibitively expensive. For a small Weissenberg number, all the solutions are constant in the third dimension, displaying strictly two-dimensional temporal evolutions. However, for a sufficiently large Weissenberg number, three-dimensional instabilities were observed, creating complex temporal behaviors. For certain Weissenberg values and models, the instability that first emerges is two-dimensional (in the x, y plane), and then the solution develops an instability in the z-direction, whereas for others the z instability comes first. Using a linear perturbation from a steady two-dimensional background solution, extended to three dimensions as constant in the third dimension, it is demonstrated that there is a linear instability for a sufficiently large Weissenberg number, and possible mechanisms for this instability are discussed.
Volume
32
Issue
2
DOI
10.1063/1.5134927
ISSN
10706631
Recommended Citation
Gutierrez-Castillo, Paloma; Kagel, Adam; and Thomases, Becca, "Three-Dimensional Viscoelastic Instabilities in a Four-Roll Mill Geometry at the Stokes Limit" (2020). Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/mth_facpubs/159
Comments
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