Characteristics and generation of elastic turbulence in a three-dimensional parallel plate channel using direct numerical simulation

Zhang Hong-Na¹, Li Feng-Chen¹, Li Xiao-Bin^{1, †,}, Li Dong-Yang¹, Cai Wei-Hua^{1, ‡,}, Yu Bo²

Snapshots of different fields in the x–y section z* = S_z/2 at the same time at Wi = 30: (a) u; (b) v; (c) tr(C) = C_xx + C_yy+ C_zz; (d) Q.