The mean conformation tensor in viscoelastic turbulence

This work demonstrates that the popular arithmetic mean conformation tensor frequently used in the analysis of turbulent viscoelastic flows is not a good representative of the ensemble. Alternative means based on recent developments in the literature are proposed, namely, the geometric and log-Eucli...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-02
Main Authors: Ismail Hameduddin, Zaki, Tamer A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arithmetic
Channel flow
Computational fluid dynamics
Euclidean geometry
Mathematical analysis
Tensors
Turbulence
Turbulent flow
Viscoelasticity
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Summary:This work demonstrates that the popular arithmetic mean conformation tensor frequently used in the analysis of turbulent viscoelastic flows is not a good representative of the ensemble. Alternative means based on recent developments in the literature are proposed, namely, the geometric and log-Euclidean means. These means are mathematically consistent with the Riemannian structure of the manifold of positive-definite tensors, on which the conformation tensor lives, and have useful properties that make them attractive alternatives to the arithmetic mean. Using a turbulent FENE-P channel flow dataset, it is shown that these two alternatives are physically representative of the ensemble. By definition these means minimize the geodesic distance to realizations and exactly preserve the scalar geometric mean of the volume and of the principal stretches. The proposed geometric and log-Euclidean means have a clear physical interpretation and provide an attractive quantity for turbulence modelling.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1902.07790