A Lagrangian-Eulerian simulation framework for viscoelastic fluid flows
Licentiate thesis, 2020

Viscoelastic fluids appear in various industrial applications, including adhesive application, additive manufacturing, seam sealing and parts assembly with adhesive. These processes are characterized by complex geometry, moving objects and transient multiphase flow, making them inherently difficult to simulate numerically. Furthermore, substantial amount of work is typically necessary to setup simulations and the simulation times are often unfeasible for practical use.

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

Digital presentation
Opponent: Gustaf Mårtensson, Mycronic AB and KTH

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

Digital presentation

Online

Opponent: Gustaf Mårtensson, Mycronic AB and KTH

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11/26/2021