Numerical methods for viscoelastic fluid flows

MA Alves, PJ Oliveira, FT Pinho - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Complex fluids exist in nature and are continually engineered for specific applications
involving the addition of macromolecules to a solvent, among other means. This imparts …

Stabilised variational multi-scale finite element formulations for viscoelastic fluids

E Castillo, L Moreno, J Baiges, R Codina - Archives of Computational …, 2021 - Springer
The objective of this article is to summarise the work that we have been doing as a group in
the context of stabilised finite element formulations for viscoelastic fluid flows. Viscoelastic …

Numerical simulation of the viscoelastic flow in a three-dimensional lid-driven cavity using the log-conformation reformulation in OpenFOAM®

F Habla, MW Tan, J Haßlberger… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work we implement the log-conformation reformulation for viscoelastic constitutive
equations as proposed by Fattal and Kupferman (2004) in the open-source CFD-software …

Rheological modeling of frontal-polymerization-based direct ink writing of thermoset polymers

M Zakoworotny, FJB Bonner, A Kumar, JE Aw… - Computer Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ensuring a high degree of dimensional accuracy of the printed part is critical in the
development of additive manufacturing techniques. The advent of computational tools to …

Simulations of deformable systems in fluids under shear flow using an arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian technique

MM Villone, MA Hulsen, PD Anderson, PL Maffettone - Computers & Fluids, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract An arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian finite element method based numerical code for
viscoelastic fluids using well-known stabilization techniques (SUPG, DEVSS, log …

Numerical simulations of cell sorting through inertial microfluidics

G Esposito, S Romano, MA Hulsen, G D'Avino… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The dynamics of a cell suspended in a Newtonian liquid subjected to a pressure-driven flow
at non-negligible inertia in cylindrical and square cross section microfluidic channels is …

Consistent splitting schemes for incompressible viscoelastic flow problems

DRQ Pacheco, E Castillo - International Journal for Numerical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Viscoelastic fluids are highly challenging from the rheological standpoint, and their
discretization demands robust, efficient numerical solvers. Simulating viscoelastic flows …

[HTML][HTML] Computational analysis of the extrudate shape of three-dimensional viscoelastic, non-isothermal extrusion flows

MMA Spanjaards, MA Hulsen, PD Anderson - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2020 - Elsevier
A 3D transient non-isothermal finite element code is developed to predict the extrudate
shape of viscoelastic fluids emerging from an asymmetric keyhole shaped die. The corner …

[HTML][HTML] Die shape optimization for extrudate swell using feedback control

MMA Spanjaards, MA Hulsen, PD Anderson - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a novel approach to solve the inverse problem of three-
dimensional die design for extrudate swell, using a real-time active control scheme. To this …

Direct numerical simulation of particle alignment in viscoelastic fluids

NO Jaensson, MA Hulsen, PD Anderson - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid …, 2016 - Elsevier
Rigid particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids under shear can align in string-like structures
in the flow direction. Although this phenomenon was first reported almost four decades ago …