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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
卷 19, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.2783426
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- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0757813] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences [0757813] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Numerical simulations reveal the formation of singular structures in the polymer stress field of a viscoelastic fluid modeled by the Oldroyd-B equations driven by a simple body force. These singularities emerge exponentially in time at hyperbolic stagnation points in the flow and their algebraic structure depends critically on the Weissenberg number. Beyond a first critical Weissenberg number the stress field approaches a cusp singularity, and beyond a second critical Weissenberg number the stress becomes unbounded exponentially in time. A local approximation to the solution at the hyperbolic point is derived from a simple ansatz, and there is excellent agreement between the local solution and the simulations. Although the stress field becomes unbounded for a sufficiently large Weissenberg number, the resultant forces of stress grow subexponentially. Enforcing finite polymer chain lengths via a FENE-P penalization appears to keep the stress bounded, but a cusp singularity is still approached exponentially in time. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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