Extrusion flow of complex viscoelastic polymer blend model

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 149, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 93-103

  Braun, André ^a   Dressler, Marco ^a   Windhab, Erich J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bi directional shear flow; Break up and coalescence; Differential constitutive equations; Droplet morphology; Mixing flow

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; FLOW FIELDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PLASTIC FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; THERMODYNAMICS;

COUETTE FLOW; MIXING FLOW; POISEUILLE FLOW;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EXTRUSION; FLOW FIELDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PLASTIC FLOW; POLYMER BLENDS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 38149096184     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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