Viscoelastic flow past a cylinder: Drag coefficient

DOI10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00168-1zbMath0966.76055OpenAlexW2002795377MaRDI QIDQ1970359

Nhan Phan-Thien, Hua-Shu Dou

Publication date: 16 August 2001

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0045-7825(99)00168-1

zbMATH Keywords

normal stressdomain decompositiondrag reductionparallel virtual machineSIMPLER algorithmshear thinningelastic viscous split stress formulationPhan-Thien/Tanner modelparallelized unstructured finite volume methodupper convective Maxwell model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05)

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Uses Software

• PVM

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