• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Approximate analytical solution for the flow of a Phan-Thien–Tanner fluid through an axisymmetric hyperbolic contraction with slip boundary condition
  • Contributor: Pérez-Salas, Karen Y.; Ascanio, Gabriel; Ruiz-Huerta, Leopoldo; Aguayo, Juan P.
  • imprint: AIP Publishing, 2021
  • Published in: Physics of Fluids
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/5.0048625
  • ISSN: 1070-6631; 1089-7666
  • Keywords: Condensed Matter Physics ; Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes ; Mechanics of Materials ; Computational Mechanics ; Mechanical Engineering
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  • Description: <jats:p>An analytic approximation for the flow of a linear Phan-Thien–Tanner model fluid through an axisymmetric semi-hyperbolic contraction is presented. Such an approximation allows us to compute velocity and pressure response for the flow through axisymmetric contraction geometries; in particular, we have considered here the semi-hyperbolic contraction, which is a geometry where an almost constant extension-rate is reached at different radial positions. In addition, we present a semi-analytic solution capable of representing the exponential version of the selected viscoelastic model; this solution was compared to the results of commercial software, demonstrating the excellent approximation level of the semi-analytic model proposed. Alternatively, for both approaches (linear and exponential Phan-Thien–Tanner), the flow model equations are solved by considering the Navier boundary condition, which allows these models to represent flows with some degree of slip at the geometry wall.</jats:p>