The effect of expansion ratio for creeping expansion flows of UCM fluids

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2009

Autores

Poole, RJ (Autor) Outra; Pinho, FT (Autor) FEUP; Alves, MA (Autor) FEUP; Oliveira, PJ (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Vol. 163 Nº 1-3

Páginas: 35-44

ISSN: 0377-0257

Editora: Elsevier

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Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia mecânica

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia mecânica ; Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia química

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ID Authenticus: P-003-ERV

DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2009.06.004

Abstract (EN): A systematic numerical investigation on creeping flows in planar sudden expansions of viscoelastic fluids obeying the upper-convected Maxwell model is carried out to assess the combined effects of viscoelasticity, through the Deborah number, and expansion ratio (ER), which was varied between 1.25 and 32. At large expansion ratios (ER >= 4) the flow becomes dominated by the downstream duct size and appropriately normalized quantities tend to be independent of ER. The recirculation size and strength become decreasing functions of De, whereas the Couette correction (the normalized entry pressure drop due to the presence of the expansion) increases. At small ER (ER <= 3), however, no simple scaling laws are found and there is a complex interaction between De and ER leading to non-monotonic variations, with an initial decrease in the recirculation length at low Deborah numbers, followed by an enhancement as De increases.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 10