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Dynamics Of Polymeric Solutions In Complex Kinematics Bulk And Free Surface Flows: Multiscale/Continuum Simulations And Experimental Studies, Arash Abedijaberi

Doctoral Dissertations

While rheological and microstructural complexities have posed tremendous challenges to researchers in developing first principles models and simulation techniques that can accurately and robustly predict the dynamical behaviour of polymeric flows, the past two decades have offered several significant advances towards accomplishing this goal. These accomplishments include: (1). Stable and accurate formulation of continuum-level viscoelastic constitutive models and their efficient implementation using operator splitting methods to explore steady and transient flows in complex geometries, (2). Prediction of rheology of polymer solutions and melts based on micromechanical models as well as highly parallel self-consistent multiscale simulations of non-homogeneous flows. The main …