Prediction of extrudate swell in polymer melt extrusion using an Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) based finite element method

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 21-28

  Ganvir, Vivek ^a,b   Lele, Ashish ^c   Thaokar, Rochish ^b   Gautham, B P ^a  

^a TATA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTRE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian; Extrudate (die) swell; Free surface simulations

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; DIES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXTRUSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; FORECASTING; FORMING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MELT SPINNING; MESH GENERATION; PHOTORESISTS; POLYMER MELTS; POLYMERS;

ACCURATE PREDICTIONS; ALE TECHNIQUES; APPLICATIONS.; ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN; AXISYMMETRIC EXTRUSIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MESHES; CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIORS; DIE DESIGNS; EULERIAN; EULERIAN FRAMEWORKS; EXTRUDATE; EXTRUDATE (DIE) SWELL; EXTRUDATE SWELLS; FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATIONS; FLOW DIRECTIONS; FREE SURFACE SIMULATIONS; FREE SURFACES; GODUNOV TYPE SCHEMES; LAGRANGIAN; MESH MOTIONS; NATURAL EVOLUTIONS; NODAL POINTS; NUMERICAL FORMULATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POLYMER MELT EXTRUSIONS; PRESENT METHODS; PROFILE EXTRUSIONS; RELATIVE MOTIONS;

SURFACES;

EID: 57449117956     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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