[HTML][HTML] Mobilization of trapped oil droplet in porous media through viscoelasticity

V Dzanic, CS From, Z Wang, A Gupta, C Xie… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Viscoelastic fluids flowing through porous media have been shown to provide improvements
in oil displacement efficiency resulting from a favorable mobility ratio. In this study, we …

[HTML][HTML] Geometry dependence of viscoelastic instabilities through porous media

V Dzanic, CS From, A Gupta, C Xie, E Sauret - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Viscoelastic instabilities are notoriously sensitive to their geometrical environment.
Consequently, understanding the onset and general behavior of viscoelastic instabilities in …

Assessment of polymer feedback coupling approaches in simulation of viscoelastic fluids using the lattice Boltzmann method

V Dzanic, CS From, E Sauret - Computers & Fluids, 2022 - Elsevier
The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has emerged as a popular approach to simulate
complex non-Newtonian fluid mechanics problems, such as those involving viscoelastic …

Nonlinear parametric models of viscoelastic fluid flows

CM Oishi, AA Kaptanoglu, JN Kutz… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reduced-order models (ROMs) have been widely adopted in fluid mechanics, particularly in
the context of Newtonian fluid flows. These models offer the ability to predict complex …

High-fidelity robust and efficient finite difference algorithm for simulation of polymer-induced turbulence in cylindrical coordinates

F Lin, ZH Wan, Y Zhu, N Liu, XY Lu… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2022 - Elsevier
A high-fidelity finite difference method for simulation of viscoelastic turbulence in cylindrical
coordinates has been developed. In this algorithm, the evolution equation for the polymer …

Preserving large-scale features in simulations of elastic turbulence

SR Yerasi, JR Picardo, A Gupta… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Simulations of elastic turbulence, the chaotic flow of highly elastic and inertialess polymer
solutions, are plagued by numerical difficulties: the chaotically advected polymer …

A novel transition route to elastically dominated turbulence in viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow

F Lin, J Song, Z Zhao, N Liu, XY Lu… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel transition sequence to elastically dominated turbulence (EDT) in Taylor–Couette
flow of dilute polymeric solutions at elasticity number E l= W i/R e= 0. 15 that signifies the …

Machine learning in viscoelastic fluids via energy-based kernel embedding

SE Otto, CM Oishi, FVG Amaral, SL Brunton… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to measure differences in collected data is of fundamental importance for
quantitative science and machine learning, motivating the establishment of metrics …

Influence of plasticity on inertialess viscoelastic instabilities in elongational flow regimes

V Dzanic, CS From, E Sauret - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Many important practical applications involving porous media, cosmetics, biological
systems, and food processing involve the transport of non-Newtonian fluids, which possess …

Conserving elastic turbulence numerically using artificial diffusivity

V Dzanic, CS From, E Sauret - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
To simulate elastic turbulence, where viscoelasticity dominates, numerical solvers introduce
an artificial stress diffusivity term to handle the steep polymer stress gradients that ensue …