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most citedUnderstanding viscoelastic flow instabilities: Oldroyd-B and beyond

94 citations · 94 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.flu-dyn2021

Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence

Sujit S. Datta, Arezoo M. Ardekani, Paulo E. Arratia +20

Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of viscoelas…

physics.flu-dyn2021

A continuous pathway between the elasto-inertial and elastic turbulent states in viscoelastic channel flow

Mohammad Khalid, V. Shankar, Ganesh Subramanian

We show that viscoelastic plane Poiseuille flow becomes linearly unstable in the absence of inertia, in the limit of high elasticities, for ultra-dilute polymer solutions. While in…

physics.flu-dyn2020

The center-mode instability of viscoelastic plane Poiseuille flow

Mohammad Khalid, Indresh Chaudhary, Piyush Garg +2

A modal stability analysis shows that plane Poiseuille flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid becomes unstable to a `center mode' with phase speed close to the maximum base-flow velocity, $U_{…

physics.flu-dyn2020

An anisotropic particle in a simple shear flow: an instance of chaotic scattering

Mahan Raj Banerjee, Ganesh Subramanian

In the Stokesian limit, the streamline topology around a single neutrally buoyant sphere is identical to the topology of pair-sphere pathlines, both in an ambient simple shear flow…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Linear instability of viscoelastic pipe flow

Indresh Chaudhary, Piyush Garg, Ganesh Subramanian +1

A modal stability analysis shows that pressure-driven pipe flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid is linearly unstable to axisymmetric perturbations, in stark contrast to its Newtonian counter…

physics.ao-ph2019

Orientation Dynamics of Sedimenting Anisotropic Particles in Turbulence

Prateek Anand, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Ganesh Subramanian

We examine the dynamics of small anisotropic particles (spheroids) sedimenting through homogeneous isotropic turbulence using direct numerical simulations and theory. The gravity-i…