Research Article

Investigation of Relaxation Time on Viscoelastic Two-Dimensional Flow Characteristics Using FreeFem++

Table 1

Horizontal velocity component “u” for Re = 200 and Re = 1000 with varying values of the fluid relaxation parameter.

Re = 200Re = 1000

0.05.0e-031.0e-020.02.0e-033.0e-034.0e-03
u(0.0;−0.4375)−0.0137483−0.01343−0.013070.0224770.0229920.0231750.0232
u(0.0;−0.375)−0.030435−0.0301−0.029720.0223450.0233690.0241480.026957
u(0.0;−0.3125)−0.0526477−0.05262−0.05256−0.00262−0.001160.0006690.009452
u(0.0;−0.25)−0.0814902−0.08209−0.0827−0.05809−0.05666−0.05352−0.03549
u(0.0;−0.1875)−0.116186−0.11768−0.11925−0.1454−0.14525−0.14143−0.11494
u(0.0;−0.125)−0.152827−0.15526−0.15788−0.24007−0.24252−0.24051−0.21917
u(0.0;−0.0625)−0.183365−0.18637−0.18965−0.28028−0.28396−0.28567−0.28997
u(0.0; 0.0)−0.197098−0.19985−0.20293−0.23835−0.24078−0.24431−0.26833
u(0.0;0.0625)−0.183887−0.18551−0.18744−0.16095−0.16228−0.16535−0.18881
u(0.0;0.125)−0.140708−0.14078−0.1411−0.08497−0.08565−0.08786−0.10514
u(0.0;0.1875)−0.0739784−0.07263−0.07142−0.01022−0.01031−0.01177−0.02398
u(0.0;0.25)0.005526240.0078960.0102880.0696090.0701480.0693840.061863
u(0.0;0.3125)0.09191260.0946870.0976870.1560610.1574470.1574620.155224
u(0.0;0.375)0.2083090.210680.2135270.237810.2404720.2414450.245287
u(0.0;0.4375)0.4710980.4729240.4753120.3186790.3207370.3215710.329919