Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4958837 | Computers & Mathematics with Applications | 2017 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a fictitious domain method with Distributed Lagrange Multipliers for simulating 2D unsteady shear-thinning non-newtonian incompressible flow in a single-screw and twin-screw extruder. The advantage of the fictitious domain method is that one can use a fixed mesh even as the fluid domain changes in time (as the screws are rotating), eliminating the need for repeated remeshing and projection. The method uses a finite element discretization in space and an operator-splitting technique for discretization in time. Numerical results are given for the flow inside a single-screw extruder or twin-screw extruder, which show that the fictitious domain method is efficient for the problem.
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Authors
Qiaolin He, Jinyang Huang, Xiaoding Shi, Xiao-Ping Wang, Chao Bi,