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JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 251, Issue -, Pages 56-68Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2017.11.002
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- Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1089505] Funding Source: researchfish
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We study numerically two-dimensional creeping viscoelastic flow past a biperiodic square array of cylinders within the Oldroyd B, FENE-CR and FENE-P constitutive models of dilute polymer solutions. Our results capture the initial mild decrease then dramatic upturn ('thickening') seen experimentally in the drag coefficient as a function of increasing Weissenberg number. By systematically varying the porosity of the flow geometry, we demonstrate two qualitatively different mechanisms underpinning this thickening effect: one that operates in the highly porous case of widely spaced obstacles, and another for more densely packed obstacles, with a crossover between these two mechanisms at intermediate porosities. We also briefly consider 2D creeping viscoelastic flow past a linear array of cylinders confined to a channel, where we find that the flow is steady for all Weissenberg numbers explored.
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