Three different kinds of closure model of fiber orientation tensors were applied to simulate numerically the hydrodynamic
stability of fiber suspensions in a channel flow. The effects of closure models and three-dimensional (
3-D) orientation distribution of fibers on the results of stability analysis were examined. It is found that the relationship
of the behavior in hydrodynamic stability and the parameter of the fiber given by all the three models are the same. However,
the attenuation of flow instability is most distinct using
3-D hybrid model because the orientation of the fiber departures from the flow direction, and least apparent using its
2-D counterpart for the the fibers show a tendency towards alignment with the flow direction in this case.
Key words fiber suspension - hydrodynamic stability - channel flow - closure model - fiber orientation
Chinese Library Classification O373
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 76E05 - 76P20
Contributed by LIN Jian-zhong
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10372090)