Published May 4, 2025 | Version v1

OpenFOAM script along with RheoTool package to perform the viscoelastic fluid simulations related to the article, "Suppression and augmentation in Worthington liquid jet height due to fluid elasticity"

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This is an OpenFOAM (version 7) script, which also includes the RheoTool package (version 6) to run the viscoelastic simulations modeled using the Oldroyd-B viscoelastic model. The recently developed two-phase solver rheoInterFoam is utilized here to simulate a liquid droplet impacting on a deep liquid pool. Both the liquid droplet and the liquid pool are considered viscoelastic in nature, while the surrounding air is treated as a Newtonian fluid. The influence of increasing elasticity (quantified using the non-dimensional number, Weissenberg number) has been studied in detail. To deal with the High Weissenberg Number Problem (HWNP), log-conformation methodology has also been incorporated in the simulation setup to stabilize the numerical results. In particular, after the drop impacts the liquid pool, a crater is formed, followed by the formation of a liquid jet, which is popularly known as the Worthington liquid jet. Interestingly, as the extent of fluid elasticity is increased, the Worthington liquid jet height first decreases, reaches a minimum, and then again starts to increase to reach higher values than the Newtonian counterpart. Therefore, a non-monotonic trend exists in the maximum values of the Worthington liquid jet height as the extent of fluid elasticity is increased. 

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