Drag Reduction by Polymer Additives in Decaying Turbulence
  We present results from a systematic numerical study of decaying turbulence in a dilute polymer solution by using a shell-model version of the FENE-P equations. Our study leads to an appealing definition of drag reduction for the case of decaying turbulence. We exhibit several new results, such as the potential-energy spectrum of the polymer, hitherto unobserved features in the temporal evolution of the kinetic-energy spectrum, and characterize intermittency in such systems. We compare our results with the GOY shell model for fluid turbulence. 
Chirag Kalelkar, Rama Govindarajan, and Rahul Pandit