We prove global existence of weak solutions for the co-rotational FENE dumbbell model and the Doi model also called the Rod model. The proof is based on propagation of compactness, namely if we take a sequence of weak solutions which converges weakly and such that the initial data converges strongly then the weak limit is also a solution. To cite this article: A. Name1, A. Name2, C. R. Acad. Sc...

We study translocation dynamics of a driven compressible semi-flexible chain consisting of alternate blocks of stiff (S) and flexible (F ) segments of size m and n respectively for different chain length N in two dimension (2D). The free parameters in the model are the bending rigidity κb which controls the three body interaction term, the elastic constant kF in the FENE (bond) potential betwee...

A toolbox for the development and reduction of the dynamical models of nonequilibrium systems is presented. The main components of this toolbox are: Legendre integrators, dynamical postprocessing, and thermodynamic projector. Thermodynamic projector is the tool to transform almost arbitrary anzatz to a thermodynamically consistent model, the postprocessing is the cheapest way to improve the sol...

We consider stagnation point flow away from a wall for creeping flow of dilute polymer solutions. For a simplified flow geometry, we explicitly show that a narrow region of strong polymer extension (a birefringent strand) forms downstream of the stagnation point in the UCM model and extensions, like the FENE-P model. These strands are associated with the existence of an essential singularity in...

This article addresses the low Weissenberg asymptotic analysis (Newtonian limit) of some macroscopic models of viscoelastic fluid flows in the framework of global weak solutions. We investigate the convergence of the corotational Johnson-Segalman, the FENE-P, the Giesekus and PTT models. Relying on a priori bounds coming from energy or free energy estimates, we first study the weak convergence ...

A toolbox for the development and reduction of the dynamical models of nonequilibrium systems is presented. The main components of this toolbox are: Legendre integrators, dynamical post-processing, and the thermodynamic projector. The thermodynamic projector is the tool to transform almost any anzatz to a thermodynamically consistent model. The post-processing is the cheapest way to improve the...

The finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) dumbbell model consists of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation for the solvent and the Fokker–Planck equation for the polymer distribution. In such a model, the polymer elongation cannot exceed a limit m0 which yields all interesting features of solutions near this limit. This work is concerned with the sharpness of boundary conditions in t...

− The two-dimensional linear stability of creeping plane Couette and Poiseuille flow of a viscoelastic fluid with viscous heating is investigated using a Galerkin-type Chebyshev collocation approach and a non-isothermal formulation of the FENE-P constitutive model. Viscous heating is observed to have a destabilizing/stabilizing tendency for Couette/Poiseuille flow at long to moderate disturbanc...