Year: 2017
Author: Jingxuan Zhuo, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Dillon
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 22 (2017), Iss. 1 : pp. 112–132
Abstract
Many biological settings involve complex fluids that have non-Newtonian
mechanical responses that arise from suspended microstructures. In contrast, Newtonian fluids are liquids or mixtures of a simple molecular structure that exhibit a linear
relationship between the shear stress and the rate of deformation. In modeling complex fluids, the extra stress from the non-Newtonian contribution must be included in
the governing equations.
In this study we compare Lagrangian mesh and Oldroyd-B formulations of fluid-structure interaction in an immersed boundary framework. The start-up phase of planar Poiseuille flow between two parallel plates is used as a test case for the fluid models. For Newtonian and Oldroyd-B fluids there exist analytical solutions which are
used in the comparison of simulation and theoretical results. The Lagrangian mesh
results are compared with Oldroyd-B using comparable parameters. A regridding algorithm is introduced for the Lagrangian mesh model. We show that the Lagrangian
mesh model simulations with regridding produce results in close agreement with the
Oldroyd-B model.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.4208/cicp.OA-2016-0109
Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 22 (2017), Iss. 1 : pp. 112–132
Published online: 2017-01
AMS Subject Headings: Global Science Press
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 21
Keywords: Lagrangian mesh model Oldroyd-B immersed boundary method viscoelastic fluid regridding methods.