Drag Reduction in Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flows of Realistic Polymer Solutions

Suspensions of DNA macromolecules (0.8 wppm, 60 kbp), modeled as finitely extensible nonlinear elastic dumbbells coupled to the Newtonian fluid, show drag reduction up to 27% at friction Reynolds number 180, saturating at the previously unachieved Weissenberg number ≃10^{4}. At a large Weissenberg number, the drag reduction is entirely induced by the fully stretched polymers, as confirmed by the extensional viscosity field. The polymer extension is strongly non-Gaussian, in contrast to the assumptions of classical viscoelastic models.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:129

Enthalten in:

Physical review letters - 129(2022), 10 vom: 02. Sept., Seite 104502

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Serafini, F [VerfasserIn]
Battista, F [VerfasserIn]
Gualtieri, P [VerfasserIn]
Casciola, C M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-49-2
DNA
Journal Article
Polymers

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Date Completed 20.09.2022

Date Revised 20.09.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.104502

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346291925