Purely elastic flow asymmetries in flow-focusing devices

DOI10.1016/j.jnnfm.2009.02.010zbMath1274.76124WikidataQ63461357 ScholiaQ63461357MaRDI QIDQ377129

Manuel A. Alves, Paulo J. Oliveira, Robert J. Poole, Mónica S. N. Oliveira, Fernando T. Pinho

Publication date: 6 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377025709000433?np=y

zbMATH Keywords

viscoelastic fluid; creeping flow; UCM model; PTT model; converging flow; elastic asymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M12: Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76A10: Viscoelastic fluids

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