Abstract
A drag force closure model for particle-laden viscoelastic fluid flows is the key to describing the ensemble-averaged behavior of the mixture. The effects of fluid rheological properties on the flow dynamics of a spherical particle in viscoelastic fluids in the creeping flow regime are parameterized using the Giesekus rheological model. Direct numerical simulations are performed within a large range of Deborah number(0−10).The drag force of a sphere in unbounded Giesekus fluids decreases monotonically with the increase of Deborah number. The negative wake may occur when the viscosity ratio is larger than 0.6 in Giesekus fluids but is absent in Oldroyd-B fluids in all conditions. An explicit closure model for the drag coefficient of a sphere in Giesekus fluids is established using the backpropagation artificial neural network. The drag closure model provides a method for explicitly formulating the momentum exchange model for dilute suspensions of solid particles in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids.
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