Abstract: The effect of viscoelasticity on the thermodynamic performance of a thermally decomposable lubricant subjected to shear and Arrhenius kinetics is investigated with direct numerical simulations. A ...

Abstract: For certain values of the material parameters, certain viscoelastic fluid models allow for a nonmonotonic relationship between the shear stress and shear rate in simple flows. We consider channel ...

Abstract: We investigate, using direct numerical simulations, the effects of viscoelasticity on pressure driven flows of thermally decomposable liquids in channels. A numerical algorithm based on the finite ...