Abstract
Due to complicated rheological behaviors and elastic effect of viscoelastic fluids, only a handful of literatures reporting the large-eddy simulation (LES) studies on turbulent drag-reduction (DR) mechanism of viscoelastic fluids. In addition, these few studies are limited within the low Reynolds number situations. In this paper, LES approach is applied to further study the flow characteristics and DR mechanism of high Reynolds viscoelastic turbulent drag-reducing flow. To improve the accuracy of LES, an N-parallel FENE-P constitutive model based on multiple relaxation times and an improved mixed subgrid-scale (SGS) model are both utilized. DR rate and velocity fluctuations under different calculation parameters are analyzed. Contributions of different shear stresses on frictional resistance coefficient, and turbulent coherent structures which are closely related to turbulent burst events are investigated in details to further reveal the DR mechanism of high Reynolds viscoelastic turbulent drag-reducing flow. Especially, the different phenomena and results between high Reynolds and low Reynolds turbulent flows are addressed. This study is expected to provide a beneficial guidance to the engineering application of turbulent DR technology.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Computational Science – ICCS 2018 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings |
Editors | Jack Dongarra, Haohuan Fu, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Michael Harold Lees, Peter M. Sloot, Yong Shi, Yingjie Tian |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 174-188 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319937120 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2018 |
Event | 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018 - Wuxi, China Duration: Jun 11 2018 → Jun 13 2018 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 10862 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018 |
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Country/Territory | China |
City | Wuxi |
Period | 06/11/18 → 06/13/18 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Constitutive model
- Large-eddy simulation
- Subgrid-scale model
- Turbulent drag-reducing flow
- Viscoelastic fluid
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science