The role of elongational viscosity in the mechanism of drag reduction by polymer additives

DOI10.1007/BF00864368zbMath0866.76005MaRDI QIDQ4873099

Jaap M. J. den Toonder, F. T. M. Nieuwstadt, G. D. C. Kuiken

Publication date: 20 July 1997

Published in: Applied Scientific Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

stressturbulent pipe flowstaggered gridrate-of-strain tensorNewtonian partnon-Newtonian partsecond order finite volume scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05)

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