Modeling the melt blowing of viscoelastic materials

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4172-4183

  Zhou, Chunfeng ^a   Tan, Dawud H ^a   Janakiraman, Arun P ^b   Kumar, Satish ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CUMMINS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibers; Materials processing; Melt blowing; Non Newtonian fluids; Rheology; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT SHEAR; ENGINEERING PREDICTION; FIBER DIAMETERS; FIBER LENGTH; GIESEKUS CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; LINEAR STABILITY; LINEAR THEORY; MATERIALS PROCESSING; MELT BLOWING; NEWTONIANS; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL;

AMPLIFICATION; ELASTICITY; FIBERS; FORECASTING; HEAT TRANSFER; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 79960209002     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.05.051     Document Type: Article

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