Behaviour of a simple crystallisation model in tube and channel flow

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 499-507

  Tanner, Roger I ^a   Hadinata, Chitiur ^b   LeeWo, Duane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Moldflow Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amorphous frozen model; Poly(butene 1); Shear induced crystallisation; Tube flow

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS-FROZEN MODEL; COMPLEX FLOW; CRYSTALLISATION; FLOWTHROUGH; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; SHEAR RATES; SIMPLE MODEL; SIMPLE SHEAR; SIMPLE SHEARING; STEP FUNCTIONS; TUBE FLOW;

BUTENES; ELASTICITY; HYDROCARBONS; PIPE FLOW; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VISCOSITY;

CRYSTALLIZATION;

EID: 67349187332     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-008-0340-x     Document Type: Article

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