Fast Jacobi Spectral Methods and Closure Approximations for the Homogeneous FENE Model of Complex Fluids

Runkai Feng, Jie Shen, Haijun Yu

The Finitely Extensible Nonlinear Elastic (FENE) dumbbell model is a widely used mathematical model for complex fluids. Direct simulation of the FENE Fokker--Planck equation is com…