@Article{CiCP-22-1, author = {Zhuo, Jingxuan and Ricardo, Cortez and Robert, Dillon}, title = {Lagrangian Mesh Model with Regridding for Planar Poiseuille Flow}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2017}, volume = {22}, number = {1}, pages = {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.