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Computational rheology

Guest Editors:

  • Roland Keunings (ICTEAM, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
  • Francisco Chinesta (PIMM Laboratory, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, HESAM Université, Paris, France)

From the pioneering works in the early 80s focusing on the numerical solution of viscoelastic models in moderately complex geometries, a large variety of models, numerical techniques and applicative frameworks emerged over the past three decades. The macroscopic scale where many phenomenological models were established has been complemented by finer descriptions at different scales, ranging from atomistic (ab-initio, molecular dynamics) to coarser descriptions based on DPD or kinetic theory. The fluid behaviour became ever more complex as well as the geometries in which the flow model is defined, and nowadays most studies consider 3D complex geometries. The mathematical statement of models remains a tricky issue as well as the stability and convergence of the numerical discretization techniques employed. Despite the impressive advances in physical modeling, numerical techniques, mathematical analysis and computational resources, many problems involving complex fluids in complex flows remain challenging.

This thematic issue revisits some of such scenarios and presents recent advances in computational rheology.
 

  1. We present a numerical study of a stabilization method for computing confined and free-surface flows of highly elastic viscoelastic fluids. In this approach, the constitutive equation based on the conformation...

    Authors: Irineu L. Palhares Junior, Cassio M. Oishi, Alexandre M. Afonso, Manuel A. Alves and Fernando T. Pinho
    Citation: Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2016 3:2
  2. Nanocomposites allow for a significant enhancement of functional properties, in particular electrical conduction. In order to optimize materials and parts, predictive models are required to evaluate particle d...

    Authors: Marta Perez, Emmanuelle Abisset-Chavanne, Anais Barasinski, Francisco Chinesta, Amine Ammar and Roland Keunings
    Citation: Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2015 2:23
  3. In spite of the industrial significance, molecular mechanism of the strain hardening saliently observed in bidisperse polymeric liquids has not been elucidated yet. In this study, the multi-chain slip-link sim...

    Authors: Keiko Takeda, Sathish K Sukumaran, Masataka Sugimoto, Kiyohito Koyama and Yuichi Masubuchi
    Citation: Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2015 2:11
  4. The flow of suspensions through bifurcations is encountered in several applications. It is known that the partitioning of particles at a bifurcation is different from the partitioning of the suspending fluid, ...

    Authors: Gaetano D’Avino, Martien A Hulsen and Pier Luca Maffettone
    Citation: Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences 2015 2:9