Kwl. Loh et al., EFFECT OF CONSTITUTIVE MODELS ON THE NUMERICAL-SIMULATION OF VISCOELASTIC FLOW AT AN ENTRY REGION, Polymer engineering and science, 36(15), 1996, pp. 1990-2000
The poor solutions of numerical simulations at a contraction has often
been attributed to the numerical scheme used. However, the solution o
f a numerical simulation is also highly dependent on the constitutive
equation. A study of various constitutive equations on the simulation
of the 4: 1 contraction flow is made in this paper, and their effects
on the results analyzed. The constitutive models considered include th
e Upper Convected Maxwell model, the Oldroyd-B model, the White-Metzne
r model, the Phan-Thien-Tanner model and the Giesekus-Leonov model. It
was found that although the Phan-Thien-Tanner model gave the best res
ults,the solution at higher shear rates were still not satisfactory.