A timestepper approach for the systematic bifurcation and stability analysis of polymer extrusion dynamics |
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Authors: | ME Kavousanakis L Russo CI Siettos AG Boudouvis GC Georgiou |
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Institution: | aSchool of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, GR 157 80 Athens, Greece;bDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University “Federico II” of Naples, Piazzale Tecchio 80, Naples 80125, Italy;cSchool of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, GR 157 80 Athens, Greece;dDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, PO Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus |
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Abstract: | We discuss how matrix-free/timestepper algorithms can efficiently be used with dynamic non-Newtonian fluid mechanics simulators in performing systematic stability/bifurcation analysis. The timestepper approach to bifurcation analysis of large-scale systems is applied to the plane Poiseuille flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid with non-monotonic slip at the wall, in order to further investigate a mechanism of extrusion instability based on the combination of viscoelasticity and non-monotonic slip. Due to the non-monotonicity of the slip equation the resulting steady-state flow curve is non-monotonic and unstable steady states appear in the negative-slope regime. It has been known that self-sustained oscillations of the pressure gradient are obtained when an unstable steady state is perturbed M.M. Fyrillas, G.C. Georgiou, D. Vlassopoulos, S.G. Hatzikiriakos, A mechanism for extrusion instabilities in polymer melts, Polymer Eng. Sci. 39 (1999) 2498–2504].Treating the simulator of a distributed parameter model describing the dynamics of the above flow as an input–output “black-box” timestepper of the state variables, stable and unstable branches of both equilibrium and periodic oscillating solutions are computed and their stability is examined. It is shown for the first time how equilibrium solutions lose stability to oscillating ones through a subcritical Hopf bifurcation point which generates a branch of unstable limit cycles and how the stable periodic solutions lose their stability through a critical point which marks the onset of the unstable limit cycles. This implicates the coexistence of stable equilibria with stable and unstable periodic solutions in a narrow range of volumetric flow rates. |
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Keywords: | Extrusion instabilities Poiseuille flow Oldroyd-B fluid Bifurcation analysis Timestepper approach Floquet multipliers |
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