Stress relaxation characteristics and extrudate swell of the IUPAC-LDPE melt

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 136, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 147-156

  Huang, Shu Xin ^a   Lu, Chuan Jing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extrudate swell; KBKZ type constitutive equations; Numerical simulation; Stress relaxation in step shear strain test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; STRAIN; SWELLING; VISCOELASTICITY;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; EXTRUDATE SWELL; STEP SHEAR STRAIN TEST;

STRESS RELAXATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; STRAIN; STRESS RELAXATION; SWELLING; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 33744832423     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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