Benchmarking the Immersed Boundary Method for Viscoelastic Flows

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Autori principali: Gruninger, Cole, Barrett, Aaron, Fang, Fuhui, Forest, M. Gregory, Griffith, Boyce E.
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Gruninger, Cole
Barrett, Aaron
Fang, Fuhui
Forest, M. Gregory
Griffith, Boyce E.
author_facet Gruninger, Cole
Barrett, Aaron
Fang, Fuhui
Forest, M. Gregory
Griffith, Boyce E.
contents We present and analyze a series of benchmark tests regarding the application of the immersed boundary (IB) method to viscoelastic flows through and around non-trivial, stationary geometries. The IB method is widely used for the simulation of biological fluid dynamics and other modeling scenarios where a structure is immersed in a fluid. Although the IB method has been most commonly used to model systems with viscous incompressible fluids, it also can be applied to visoelastic fluids, and has enabled the study of a wide variety of dynamical problems including the settling of vesicles and the swimming of elastic filaments in fluids modeled by the Oldroyd-B constuitive equation. However, to date, relatively little work has explored the accuracy or convergence properties of the numerical scheme. Herein, we present benchmarking results for an IB solver applied to viscoelastic flows in and around non-trivial geometries using the idealized Oldroyd-B and more realistic, polymer-entanglement-based Rolie-Poly constitutive equations. We use two-dimensional numerical test cases along with results from rheology experiments to benchmark the IB method and compare it to more complex finite element and finite volume viscoelastic flow solvers. Additionally, we analyze different choices of regularized delta function and relative Lagrangian grid spacings which allow us to identify and recommend the key choices of these numerical parameters depending on the present flow regime.
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spellingShingle Benchmarking the Immersed Boundary Method for Viscoelastic Flows
Gruninger, Cole
Barrett, Aaron
Fang, Fuhui
Forest, M. Gregory
Griffith, Boyce E.
Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
We present and analyze a series of benchmark tests regarding the application of the immersed boundary (IB) method to viscoelastic flows through and around non-trivial, stationary geometries. The IB method is widely used for the simulation of biological fluid dynamics and other modeling scenarios where a structure is immersed in a fluid. Although the IB method has been most commonly used to model systems with viscous incompressible fluids, it also can be applied to visoelastic fluids, and has enabled the study of a wide variety of dynamical problems including the settling of vesicles and the swimming of elastic filaments in fluids modeled by the Oldroyd-B constuitive equation. However, to date, relatively little work has explored the accuracy or convergence properties of the numerical scheme. Herein, we present benchmarking results for an IB solver applied to viscoelastic flows in and around non-trivial geometries using the idealized Oldroyd-B and more realistic, polymer-entanglement-based Rolie-Poly constitutive equations. We use two-dimensional numerical test cases along with results from rheology experiments to benchmark the IB method and compare it to more complex finite element and finite volume viscoelastic flow solvers. Additionally, we analyze different choices of regularized delta function and relative Lagrangian grid spacings which allow us to identify and recommend the key choices of these numerical parameters depending on the present flow regime.
title Benchmarking the Immersed Boundary Method for Viscoelastic Flows
topic Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00548