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Simulation of dilute polymer solutions using a Fokker–Planck equation. (English) Zbl 1100.76549

Summary: A numerical method based on the Fokker–Planck equation is applied to the simulation of a dilute solution of polymer modelled by two-dimensional FENE dumbbells. The proposed method is tested for both planar homogeneous flows and the flow around a cylinder in a channel.

MSC:

76M25 Other numerical methods (fluid mechanics) (MSC2010)
76M20 Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics
76A05 Non-Newtonian fluids
82D60 Statistical mechanics of polymers
82C31 Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics
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