TY - GEN
T1 - Slow-fast decomposition of an inertialess flow of viscoelastic fluids
AU - Lieu, Binh K.
AU - Jovanovic, Mihailo R.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We study frequency responses of an inertialess two-dimensional channel flow of viscoelastic fluids. By rewriting the evolution equations in terms of low-pass filtered versions of the stream function, we show that strongly-elastic flows can be brought into a standard singularly perturbed form that exhibits a slow-fast decomposition. In high-Weissenberg number regime, which is notoriously difficult to study numerically, we demonstrate that the frequency responses are reliably captured by the dynamics of the fast subsystem. We use numerical computations to validate our theoretical findings and to illustrate that our formulation does not suffer from spurious numerical instabilities.
AB - We study frequency responses of an inertialess two-dimensional channel flow of viscoelastic fluids. By rewriting the evolution equations in terms of low-pass filtered versions of the stream function, we show that strongly-elastic flows can be brought into a standard singularly perturbed form that exhibits a slow-fast decomposition. In high-Weissenberg number regime, which is notoriously difficult to study numerically, we demonstrate that the frequency responses are reliably captured by the dynamics of the fast subsystem. We use numerical computations to validate our theoretical findings and to illustrate that our formulation does not suffer from spurious numerical instabilities.
KW - Energy amplification
KW - frequency responses
KW - singular perturbation analysis
KW - viscoelastic fluids
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U2 - 10.1109/acc.2012.6315679
DO - 10.1109/acc.2012.6315679
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869413772
SN - 9781457710957
T3 - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
SP - 4369
EP - 4374
BT - 2012 American Control Conference, ACC 2012
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2012 American Control Conference, ACC 2012
Y2 - 27 June 2012 through 29 June 2012
ER -