The matching of 3D Rolie-poly viscoelastic numerical simulations with experimental polymer melt flow within a slit and a cross-slot geometry

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 355-373

  Lord, T D ^a   Scelsi, L ^a   Hassell, D G ^a,c   MacKley, M R ^a   Embery, J ^b   Auhl, D ^b   Harlen, O G ^b   Tenchev, R ^b,d   Jimack, P K ^b   Walkley, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^d LUSAS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D SIMULATIONS; 3D CODES; 3D SIMULATIONS; FLOW BIREFRINGENCE; MONODISPERSE POLYSTYRENE; MULTI-PASS RHEOMETER; MULTIMODES; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POLYDISPERSE POLYSTYRENE; POLYMER MELT FLOW; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME EVOLUTIONS;

ASPECT RATIO; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EXPERIMENTS; POLYDISPERSITY; POLYMER MELTS; POLYSTYRENES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 77949766327     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3306572     Document Type: Article

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