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This paper presents the application of spectral element methods to simulate the time-dependent flow of viscoelastic fluids in non-trivial geometries using a closed-form differential constitutive equation. As an example, results relative to the flow of a FENE-CR fluid in a two-dimensional four-to-one contraction are given.
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Fiétier, N., Deville, M.O. Simulations of Time-Dependent Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids with Spectral Element Methods. Journal of Scientific Computing 17, 649–657 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015135016765
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