Polymer scission in turbulent flows
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Publication:4964059
DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.1092zbMATH Open1461.76015arXiv2004.14092OpenAlexW3128854688MaRDI QIDQ4964059FDOQ4964059
Authors: Dario Vincenzi, Takeshi Watanabe, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Jason R. Picardo 
Publication date: 24 February 2021
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Polymers in a turbulent flow are subject to intense strain, which can cause their scission and thereby limit the experimental study and application of phenomena such as turbulent drag reduction and elastic turbulence. In this paper, we study polymer scission in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, through a combination of stochastic modelling, based on a Gaussian time-decorrelated random flow, and direct numerical simulations (DNSs) with both one-way (passive) and two-way (active) coupling of the polymers and the flow. For the first scission of passive polymers, the stochastic model yields analytical predictions which are found to be in good agreement with results from the DNSs, for the temporal evolution of the fraction of unbroken polymers and the statistics of the survival of polymers. The impact of scission on the dynamics of a turbulent polymer solution is investigated through DNSs with two-way coupling (active polymers). Our results indicate that the reduction of kinetic energy dissipation due to feedback from stretched polymers is an inherently transient effect, which is lost as the polymers breakup. Thus, the overall dissipation-reduction is maximised by an intermediate polymer relaxation time, for which polymers stretch significantly but without breaking too quickly. We also study the dynamics of the polymer fragments which form after scission; these daughter polymers can themselves undergo subsequent, repeated, breakups to produce a hierarchical population of polymers with a range of relaxation times and scission rates.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14092
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Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)
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