Published : 2022-09-18

The POLYFLOW system studies on the effect of flow conditions on the extrudate swell

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The POLYFLOW techniques were applied to model the polymer stream (Barrus effect, free surface problem) that leaves the shaping channel, e.g., an extruder head, in an isothermal viscous and in a viscoelastic flow. The viscous Newtonian and generalized Newtonian (in terms of Bird-Carreau's model) flows and the viscoelastic flow were modeled, the latter by using the differential Maxwell and the integral Kaye-Bernstein-Kearsley-Zapas (KBKZ) models. Extrudate swell was studied in relation to polymer flow rate, shaping-channel geometry, and material model (Figs. 6-9). Results were in fair agreement with experiment tal data. The simple (two-parameter) Maxwell equation proved to be the most suitable rheological equation to model the extrudate swell, except at high flow rates where some limitations arise.


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Wilczyński, K., Szymaniak, Z., & Nastaj, A. (2022). The POLYFLOW system studies on the effect of flow conditions on the extrudate swell. Polimery, 47(2), 130-135. Retrieved from https://ichp.vot.pl/index.php/p/article/view/1954