Surface-tension-driven flows and, in particular, their tendency to decay spontaneously into
drops have long fascinated naturalists, the earliest systematic experiments dating back to …

We address the outstanding problem affecting the numerical simulation of steady
viscoelastic flows in complex geometries, namely the existence of a critical value of the …

The surface tension driven breakup of viscoelastic filaments into droplets is qualitatively
different from that of Newtonian liquid filaments. Disturbances on filaments of dilute polymer …

The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is extended and tested for the
numerical simulation of transient viscoelastic free surface flows. The basic equations …

The temporal instability of a cylindrical capillary jet is analysed numerically for different liquid
Reynolds numbers Re, disturbance wavenumbers k, and amplitudes ε0. The breakup …

We investigate the effects of viscoelasticity on drop generation in inkjet printing. In drop-on-
demand printing, individual ink 'drops' are ejected from a nozzle by imposed pressure …

This work is concerned with the development of a numerical method capable of simulating
viscoelastic free surface flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid. The basic equations governing the flow …

It is well known that a viscoelastic jet breaks up much more slowly than a Newtonian jet.
Typically, it evolves into the so-called beads-on-string structure, where large drops are …

We examine, with asymptotic analysis and numerical simulation, the iterated stretching
dynamics of FENE and Oldroyd-B jets of initial radius r 0, shear viscosity ν, Weissenberg …

We survey the field of micro-macro numerical techniques for predicting complex flows of
viscoelastic fluids. The micro-macro approach couples the mesoscopic scale of kinetic …