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Development and Validation of an Open-Source Finite-Volume Method Solver

for Viscoplastic Flows

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86009-7_12

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 Development and Validation
of an Open-Source Finite-Volume
Method Solver for Viscoplastic Flows

Nikola Mirkov , Seif Eddine Ouyahia , Sara Lahlou , Milada Pezo,

and Rastko Jovanović

Abstract In the present paper, we discuss implementation details of a free and open-
source numerical solver based on the finite volume method for numerical simulation
of viscoplastic non-Newtonian fluids. In addition to the fact that they are involved
in many industrial applications, both their physical properties and their rheological
behavior make them challenging for numerical simulation. Viscoplastic fluids are
known to behave as solid unless the shear stress reaches a critical level, known as
yield-stress, beyond which they behave as liquid. In most cases, both yielded and
unyielded regions coexist in the fluid domain. In mathematical model of viscoplastic
fluid, the constitutive equation is a non-differentiable function. This is often over-
come by using the approximate constitutive equation that has a regularized form,
e.g. the Papanastasiou regularization model. Using the same approach, we assess
the influence of regularization parameters on simulation convergence and results
accuracy. In this study, we give implementation details of viscoplastic fluid models
in freeCappuccino open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics code. Moreover, we
perform validation on several well known benchmark cases and compare proposed
approach with those existing in published literature. We also perform a paramet-
ric analysis and show the effect of Reynolds and Bingham numbers on the extent
of the yielded regions. Conclusions of the study have relevance in practical appli-
cation of computational fluid dynamics to viscoplastic fluids in particular and to
non-Newtonian fluids in general.

N. Mirkov (B) · M. Pezo · R. Jovanović

VINČA Institute of Nuclear Sciences-National Institute of the Republic of Serbia,
University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovića Alasa 12-14, 11351 Belgrade, Serbia
e-mail: nmirkov@vin.bg.ac.rs
S. E. Ouyahia · S. Lahlou
Laboratory of Transport Phenomena, Faculty of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
USTHB B.P. 32 El-Alia Bab-Ezzouar, 16111 Algiers, Algeria
S. E. Ouyahia
Sonatrach–Direction Centrale Recherche et Développement, Avenue du 1er novembre,
35000 Boumerdes, Algeria

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