Polymer mixing in shear-driven turbulence

DOI10.1017/S0022112007007033zbMath1123.76006MaRDI QIDQ5308079

Ashish Robert, T. Vaithianathan, Lance R. Collins, James G. Brasseur

Publication date: 26 September 2007

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

drag reductionvertical velocity fluctuationsfinite extensible nonlinear elastic model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

Related Items (4)

Polymers in turbulence: stretching statistics and the role of extreme strain rate fluctuations ⋮ Stretching of polymer chains by fluctuating flow fields ⋮ Effect of polymer-stress diffusion in the numerical simulation of elastic turbulence ⋮ Polymer-laden homogeneous shear-driven turbulent flow: a model for polymer drag reduction

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