Application of vanishing diffusion stabilization in Oldroyd-B fluid flow simulations

Abstract

Abstract Two different methods of artificial diffusion stabilization of the numerical simulations of steady Oldroyd-B fluids flows are presented. They are based on the idea of vanishing in time added stabilization terms which are only present during the initial stage of time-marching process towards the steady state solution. These extra terms naturally vanish and do not affect the final result. The numerical simulations are built on a simple steady 2D case of Oldroyd-B fluid flow in a symmetrical corrugated channel. Numerical solver uses finite element discretization in space and characteristic Galerkin method for pseudo-time discretization. Numerical results are presented in the form of isolines and graphs of selected flow variables, to assess the possible efficiency of the different stabilization techniques used.

Keywords

• Artificial diffusion stabilization
• Finite element method
• Oldroyd-B fluid
• Stress diffusion