Computation of viscoelastic cable coating flows

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 697-712

  Mutlu, I ^a,b   Townsend, P ^a   Webster, M F ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Cable coating; Finite elements; Tube tooling; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CABLES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ISOTHERMAL FLOW; PHAN-THIEN-TANNER CONSTITUTIVE MODEL; TAYLOR-PETROV-GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TUBE TOOLING;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

CABLE; COATING; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTIC FLUID;

FLUID FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTIC; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0032029313     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0363(19980330)26:6<697::aid-fld680>3.0.co;2-z     Document Type: Article

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