A Lagrangian-Eulerian simulation framework for viscoelastic fluid flows
Licentiate thesis, 2020
In this thesis a new Lagrangian-Eulerian numerical method for viscoelastic flow is proposed. The viscoelastic constitutive equation is solved in the Lagrangian frame of reference, while the momentum and continuity equations are solved on an adaptive octree grid with the finite volume method. Interior objects are modeled with implicit immersed boundary conditions.
The framework handles multiphase flows with complex geometry with minimal manual effort. Furthermore, compared to other Lagrangian methods, no re-meshing due to grid deformation is necessary and a relatively small amount of Lagrangian nodes are required for accurate and stable results. No other stabilization method than both sides diffusion is found necessary.
The new method is validated by numerical benchmarks which are compared to analytic solutions as well as numerical and experimental data from the literature. The method is implemented both for CPU computation and in a hybrid CPU-GPU version. A substantial increase in simulation speed is found for the CPU-GPU implementation. Finally, an industrially suitable model for swirl adhesive application is proposed and evaluated. The results are found to be in good agreement with experimental adhesive geometries.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
non-Newtonian flow
Immersed boundary methods
Author
Simon Ingelsten
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Engineering Materials
Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre
Computationally efficient viscoelastic flow simulation using a Lagrangian-Eulerian method and GPU-acceleration
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics,;Vol. 279(2020)
Journal article
A Lagrangian-Eulerian framework for simulation of transient viscoelastic fluid flow
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics,;Vol. 266(2019)p. 20-32
Journal article
A numerical framework for simulation of swirled adhesive application
Annual Transactions - The Nordic Rheology Society,;Vol. 27(2019)p. 103-108
Paper in proceeding
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Areas of Advance
Production
Materials Science
Subject Categories
Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics
Publisher
Chalmers