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A hybrid method for computing the flow of viscoelastic fluids
Author(s) -
Ariel P. D.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.1650140702
Subject(s) - flow (mathematics) , viscoelasticity , mechanics , convergence (economics) , stagnation point , computational fluid dynamics , perturbation (astronomy) , mathematics , computer science , physics , heat transfer , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , economics , economic growth
A hybrid method for computing the flow of viscoelastic and second‐order fluids is presented. It combines the features of the finite difference technique and the shooting method. The method is accurate because it uses central differences. Its convergence is at least superlinear. The method is applied to obtain the solutions to three problems of flow of Walters' B' fluid: (a) flow near a stagnation point, (b) flow over a stretching sheet and (c) flow near a rotating disk. Numerical results reveal some new characteristics of flows which are not easy to demonstrate using the perturbation technique.