Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics


Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v.v.i.	CTU in Prague Faculty of Mech. Engineering Dept. Tech. Mathematics	MIO Université du Sud Toulon Var - AMU - CNRS - IRD	Czech Pilot centre ERCOFTAC

Numerical Tests of Vanishing Diffusion Stabilization in Oldroyd-B Fluid Flow Simulations
Pires M., Bodnár T.
Abstract:
This work presents some numerical tests of finite element solution of incompressible Oldroyd-B fluids flows, using different types of numerical stabilization. In this study the diffusive term (Laplacian of extra stress) is added to the tensorial constitutive relation where it is multiplied by a coefficient, that is variable in time. The goal is to make this diffusion coefficient vanish in time, so that the final solution remains unaffected by the added diffusion term. A series of numerical tests was performed for the steady two-dimensional Oldroyd-B fluid flow in corrugated channel (tube) to compare different versions of the vanishing stabilization terms and assess their efficiency in enforcing the solution convergence, without affecting the final steady state.
Keywords:
finite element method, oldroyd-B fluid, numerical stabilization, stress diffusion

Fulltext: PDF DOI: https://doi.org/10.14311/TPFM.2021.014

In Proceedings Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics 2021, Prague, 2021, Edited by Tomáš Bodnár, Tomáš Neustupa and David Šimurda, pp. 102-109 ISBN 978-80-87012-76-5 (Print) ISSN 2336-5781 (Print)