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A fully coupled implicit finite-volume algorithm for incompressible viscoelastic interfacial flows is proposed, whereby the viscoelasticity of the flow is described by an upper-convected Maxwell constitutive model, including limited…
When fully conservative methods are used to simulate transcritical flow, spurious pressure oscillations and numerical instability are generated. The strength and speed of propagation of shock waves cannot be represented correctly using a…
The Navier-Stokes-Voigt (NSV) model of viscoelastic incompressible fluid has been recently proposed as a regularization of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations for the purpose of direct numerical simulations. In this work we investigate its…
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