A turbulent duct flow investigation of drag-reducing viscoelastic FENE-P fluids based on different low-Reynolds-number models

Ehsan Rasti, Farhad Talebi and Kiumars Mazaheri

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 526, issue C

Abstract: Drag reduction of viscoelastic fluids under turbulent flow regime is an important phenomenon and well observed by many researchers. In this paper, turbulent flow characteristics under drag reduction condition are compared using four different low-Reynolds number k- ε models namely, Lam–Bremhorst, Launder–Sharma, Nagano–Hishida and Chien. The viscoelastic turbulence closure of Resende et al. (2011) is adopted. Time-averaged momentum and rheological constitutive equations based on finitely extensible nonlinear elastic-Peterlin (FENE-P) model are used and a polymeric contribution to the eddy viscosity equation is considered. The simulations are conducted for two sets of rheological parameters identified by Reτ0 = 395, β=0.9, L2 = 900 and Weτ0 = 25, 100 corresponding to drag reductions of 18% and 37%. Validation against DNS data is carried out for profiles of mean velocity, viscoelastic stress tensor, turbulent kinetic energy and its rate of dissipation. The differences are mainly limited to the viscous and buffer layer regions. While Nagano–Hishida and Chien models overpredict the DNS drag reduction results in both cases, the two other models underpredict them. The Lam–Bremhorst has the most accurate drag reduction results as a consequence of better capturing the near-wall effects.

Keywords: Drag reduction; Viscoelastic fluid; FENE-P model; Direct numerical simulation; Turbulence model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.03.083

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