A mathematical model of turbulent drag reduction by high-molecular-weight polymeric additives in a shear flow

DOI10.1063/1.2979711zbMATH Open1182.76050arXiv0805.0110OpenAlexW1999718313MaRDI QIDQ5304136FDOQ5304136

Authors: G. I. Barenblatt 

Publication date: 18 March 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Drag reduction, or, what is the same, mean velocity increase in a turbulent flow at a fixed pressure drop through the addition of tiny amounts (several parts per million) of high molecular weight polymers (Thoms effect), is known already for more than sixty years. Rather long ago it was understood that this effect is related to supramolecular structures formed in the flow. Recent experiments by S. Chu, E.S.G. Shaqfeh and their associates, where the motion of supramolecular structures was directly observed, made it possible to understand and quantify the dynamic interaction of the polymeric structures with the solvent (water) flow. These results lead to the construction of a mathematical model of the Thoms effect, based on the Kolmogorov(1942)-Prandtl(1945) semi-empirical theory of shear flow turbulence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0110

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zbMATH Keywords

drag reductionpolymer solutionsmolecular weightshear turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Cited In (1)

• A FENE-P \(k-\epsilon\) turbulence model for low and intermediate regimes of polymer-induced drag reduction

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