Maximum drag reduction asymptotes and the cross-over to the Newtonian plug

DOI10.1017/S0022112005007950MaRDI QIDQ5289858zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Benzi, Victor S. L'vov, Itamar Procaccia, V. Tiberkevich, E. De Angelis

Publication date 19 April 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0405033

zbMATH Keywords

FENE-P modelwall-bounded turbulenceviscoelastic turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Control of turbulent flows (76F70)

Abstract: We employ the full FENE-P model of hydrodynamics of a dilute polymer solutions to derive a theoretical approach to drag reduction in wall bounded turbulence. We recapture the results of a recent simplified theory which derived the universal Maximum Drag Reduction (MDR) asymptote, and complement that theory with a discussion of the cross-over from the MDR to the Newtonian plug when the drag reduction saturates. The FENE-P model gives rise to a rather complex theory due to the interaction of the velocity field with the polymeric conformation tensor, making analytic estimates quite taxing. To overcome this we develop the theory in a computer-assisted manner, checking at each point the analytic estimates by Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of viscoelastic turbulence in a channel.

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