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Chinese Journal of Engineering Mathematics ›› 2016, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 151-162.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-3085.2016.02.005

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Simulation of Two-dimensional Planar Contraction Flow Based on Brownian Configuration Fields Method

LI Lu-cheng1,  XU Xiao-yang2   

  1. 1- Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129
    2- School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong 723001
  • Received:2014-01-13 Accepted:2014-09-11 Online:2016-04-15 Published:2015-06-15
  • Contact: X. Xu. E-mail address: xiaoyang.xu@snut.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (11502132); the Scientific Research Program of Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (15JK1152); the Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Shaanxi University of Technology (SLGKYQD2-15).

Abstract:

In this paper, Brownian configuration fields (BCF) with the finite volume discretization on non-staggered grids is employed to simulate 2D viscoelastic fluid flows. In order to verify the effectiveness of the numerical method, the plane Couette flow is firstly tested, and the resu-lts are compared with the available literature data. Then, the BCF method is extended to the planar contraction flow. The influence of We on the flow patterns is also analyzed. All numerical results illustrate that the numerical method employed in this paper has the advantages of high efficiency and good stability, and is easy to deal with the convection term. Furthermore, it is observed that the variance reduction can nicely suppress the unphysical oscillation of stress around the contraction corner.

Key words: Brownian configuration fields, finite volume method, planar contraction, variance reduction

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