Spectral element method for viscoelastic flows in a planar contraction channel 

Date

2003-05-01

Advisors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

ISSN

1097-0363

Volume Title

Publisher

John Wiley

Type

Article

Peer reviewed

Abstract

Description

This paper developed a new algorithm, which combines the spectral element method with elastic viscous splitting stress method, for viscoelastic fluid in a planar contraction channel. This is an important topic at the cutting edge of research in computational rheology. The technique has been used in some other important rheological flow problems of academic and industrial interest. It provides a bench-mark solution for these viscoelastic flow problems and is currently used in industrial applications including plastic molding and cable coating.

Keywords

RAE 2008, UoA 23 Computer Science and Informatics

Citation

Li, X.K., Evans, G. and Meng, S. (2003) Spectral element method for viscoelastic flows in a planar contraction channel. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 42, pp. 323-348.

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Research Institute