Flow birefringence and computational studies of a shear thinning polymer solution in axisymmetric stagnation flow

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 151-193

  Li, Ji Ming ^a   Burghardt, Wesley R ^a   Yang, Bin ^b   Khomami, Bamin ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive equations; Flow birefringence; Numerical simulation; Stagnation flow

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYSTYRENES; RHEOLOGY; RHEOMETERS; SHEAR STRESS; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; ELONGATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FLOW BIREFRINGENCE; GIESEKUS MODEL; NORMAL STRESS; PHAN-THIEN-TANNER MODEL; STAGNATION FLOW; WEISSENBERG NUMBER;

SHEAR FLOW;

BIREFRINGENCE; POLYMER; SHEAR FLOW; STAGNATION FLOW;

EID: 0031775844     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(97)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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