Volume 26, Number 3, 307-312, DOI: 10.1007/BF02440080

Effects of tensor closure models and 3-D orientation on the stability of fiber suspensions in a channel flow

You Zhen-jiang and Lin Jian-zhong

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Abstract

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 using3-D hybrid model because the orientation of the fiber departures from the flow direction, and least apparent using its2-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)

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