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Chinese Physics, 2007, Vol. 16(8): 2444-2448    DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/8/048
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Lattice Boltzmann simulations of a dumbbell moving in a Poiseuille flow

Yi Hou-Hui(伊厚会)a)b)†, Chen Yan-Yan(陈艳燕)a)b), and Li Hua-Bing(李华兵)a)c)
a Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, ChinaGraduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100080, China; b Department of Information Material Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
Abstract  In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann method is applied to simulate a dumbbell moving in a pressure-driven flow in a planar channel with the stress-integration method for the evaluation of hydrodynamic force acting on the cylinders. The simulation results show that the dumbbell also has the important feature of the Segré--Silberberg effect like a particle in a Poiseuille flow. The dumbbell trajectories, orientations, the cylinders vertical velocities and angular velocities all reach their equilibrium values separately independent of their initial positions. It is also found that the dumbbell equilibrium positions depend on the flow Reynolds number, blockage ratio and elastic coefficient. This study is expected to be helpful to understand the dynamics of polymer solutions, polymer synthesis and reaction, etc.
Keywords:  lattice Boltzmann method      dumbbell  
Received:  09 October 2006      Revised:  20 November 2006      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  47.60.-i (Flow phenomena in quasi-one-dimensional systems)  
  47.10.-g (General theory in fluid dynamics)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos~10474109 and 10447001) and the Foundation of Ministry of Personnel of China.

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Yi Hou-Hui(伊厚会), Chen Yan-Yan(陈艳燕), and Li Hua-Bing(李华兵) Lattice Boltzmann simulations of a dumbbell moving in a Poiseuille flow 2007 Chinese Physics 16 2444

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