Complex and active fluids find broad applications in flows through porous materials.
Nontrivial rheology can couple to porous microstructure leading to surprising flow patterns …

Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

In recent years, silica-based polymer nanofluids (NFs) have attracted more and more
attention because they can enhance temperature and salt tolerance. This study summarized …

Viscoelastic flows through porous media become unstable and chaotic beyond critical flow
conditions, impacting widespread industrial and biological processes such as enhanced oil …

The flow of viscoelastic polymeric fluids through porous media is common in industrial
applications such as oil recovery and groundwater remediation. Polymeric stresses can lead …

In this study, lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is utilized for three-dimensional simulation of
fluid flow through two porous structures, consisting of grains with the same diameter:(i) a …

Viscoelastic instabilities are notoriously sensitive to their geometrical environment.
Consequently, understanding the onset and general behavior of viscoelastic instabilities in …

Fine-scale flow motions are measured in a Newtonian and polymer drag-reduced turbulent
boundary layer (TBL) at a common momentum thickness Reynolds number-criterion. We …

Viscoelastic flows through microscale porous arrays exhibit complex path selection and
switching phenomena. However, understanding this process is limited by a lack of studies …

Viscoelastic flows in the cross-slot geometry can undergo a transition from a steady
symmetric to a steady asymmetric flow state, ostensibly due to purely-elastic effects arising …