This project will investigate the effects conformation dependent drag (CDD) of polymers on the properties of elastic turbulence in dilute polymer solutions. CDD arises from hydrodynamic interactions between segments of the polymer and can be modelled, in a coarse-grained manner, by making the relaxation time of an elastic dumbbell dependent on the dumbbell's extension. The effects of CDD in viscometric flows have been well-studied, e.g. the coil-stretch hysteresis in extensional flow. In contrast, the role of CDD in turbulent flows remains unclear, especially for inertialess elastic turbulence. In this project, the student will modify an existing CFD code, adding CDD terms to the FENE-P constitute model and perform simulations with and without CDD. The data will be analyzed to understand and quantify the impact of CDD on elastic turbulence in a two-dimensional periodic setting.