Numerical simulation of drop deformation in shear


Yuriko Renardy, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. 12 mars 2009 15:30 edp 2:00:00
Abstract:

We consider a drop of one liquid suspended in another liquid which is sheared as a model of a Couette device. Numerical simulations are conducted with an in-house volume of fluid (VOF) code with either a continuum surface force (CSF) algorithm with piecewise linear interface reconstruction or with a more accurate but computationally more intensive paraboloid representation of the interface (PROST). The methodology will be presented. The Oldroyd-B and Giesekus constitutive models are implemented. Comparisons with recent experimental results of P. Moldenaers (KU-Leuven) will be discussed