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A Continuum-Microscopic Method Based on IRBFs and Control Volume Scheme for Viscoelastic Fluid Flows

C.-D. Tran¹, N. Mai-Duy^1,1, K. Le-Cao¹, T. Tran-Cong¹

1 Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2012, 85(6), 499-520. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2012.085.499

Abstract

A numerical computation of continuum-microscopic model for visco-elastic flows based on the Integrated Radial Basis Function (IRBF) Control Volume and the Stochastic Simulation Techniques (SST) is reported in this paper. The macroscopic flow equations are closed by a stochastic equation for the extra stress at the microscopic level. The former are discretised by a 1D-IRBF-CV method while the latter is integrated with Euler explicit or Predictor-Corrector schemes. Modelling is very efficient as it is based on Cartesian grid, while the integrated RBF approach enhances both the stability of the procedure and the accuracy of the solution. The proposed method is demonstrated with the solution of the start-up Couette flow of the Hookean and FENE dumbbell model fluids.

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