A geometrical solution to the sharkskin instability

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3048-3056

  Pol, Harshawardhan V ^a   Joshi, Yogesh M ^b   Tapadia, Prashant S ^a,d   Lele, Ashish K ^a   Mashelkar, Raghunath A ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^d University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATIONAL FLOW; POLYMER MELT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION;

DIES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DIES; EXTRUSION;

EID: 34249026929     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0610391     Document Type: Article

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