Stretching of polymers in a turbulent environment
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DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00339-9zbMATH Open0994.82571arXivnlin/0201035OpenAlexW2027906385WikidataQ62598999 ScholiaQ62598999MaRDI QIDQ696644FDOQ696644
Jochen Kronjäger, Bruno Eckhardt, Jörg Schumacher
Publication date: 12 September 2002
Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The interaction of polymers with small-scale velocity gradients can trigger a coil-stretch transition in the polymers. We analyze this transition within a direct numerical simulation of shear turbulence with an Oldroyd-B model for the polymer. In the coiled state the lengths of polymers are distributed algebraically with an exponent alpha=2 gamma-1/De, where gamma is a characteristic stretching rate of the flow and De the Deborah number. In the stretched state we demonstrate that the length distribution of the polymers is limited by the feedback to the flow.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0201035
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