Viscoelastic flows in a rough channel: A multiscale analysis

Abstract

We investigate the influence of the rough boundaries on viscoelastic flows, described by the diffusive Oldroyd model. The fluid domain has a rough wall modeled by roughness patterns of size $\epsilon \ll 1$. We present and rigorously justify an asymptotic expansion with respect to ε, at any order, based upon the definition of elementary problems: Oldroyd-type problems at the global scale defined on a smoothened domain and boundary-layer corrector problems. The resulting analysis guarantees optimality with respect to the truncation error and leads to a numerical algorithm which allows us to build the approximation of the solution at any required precision.