LES Study on High Reynolds Turbulent Drag-Reducing Flow of Viscoelastic Fluids Based on Multiple Relaxation Times Constitutive Model and Mixed Subgrid-Scale Model

Jingfa Li, Bo Yu*, Xinyu Zhang, Shuyu Sun, Dongliang Sun, Tao Zhang

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationComputational Science – ICCS 2018 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsJack Dongarra, Haohuan Fu, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Michael Harold Lees, Peter M. Sloot, Yong Shi, Yingjie Tian
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages174-188
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319937120
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018 - Wuxi, China
Duration: Jun 11 2018Jun 13 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10862 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuxi
Period06/11/1806/13/18

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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

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