Flow enhancement of electrical fluctuations in polymer solutions and melts

comparison between to versions of the SAFT EOS in the study of PVT and VLE phase behavior of pure polymer melts and binary polymer solutions

Prediction of multiple overshoots in shear stress during fast flows of bidisperse polymer melts

We present a differential constitutive model of stress relaxation in polydisperse linear polymer melts and solutions that contains contributions from reptation, contour-length fluctuations, and chain stretching. The predictions of the model during fast start-up and steady shear flows of polymer melts are in accord with experimental observations. Moreover, in accordance with reported experimenta...

Wall Slip and Boundary Effects in Polymer Shear Flows

Polymer – surface interactions strongly influence many important industrial and rheological flows. In particular, polymer melts and solutions slip against the surface; this has long been associated with sharkskin and spurt in extrusion, and recent experimental observations suggest that slip also plays a role in the formation of enhanced concentration fluctuations in entangled polymer solutions....

Development of a rheological model for polymeric fluids based on FENE model

Rheological models for polymer solutions and melts based on the finitely extensible non-linear elastic (FENE) dumbbell theory are reviewed in this study. The FENE-P model that is a well-known Peterlin approximation of the FENE model, indicates noticeable deviation from original FENE predictions and also experimental results, especially in the transient flow. In addition, both FENE and FENE-P mo...

Constitutive modeling of macromolecular fluids

Macromolecular or polymeric liquids consist of polymer solutions, polymer melts, particle suspension fluids, and many biological fluids. Polymer solutions are made of polymers dissolved in solutions or solvent; polymer melts are molten polymers; particle suspension fluids consist of solid particles suspended in a matrix fluid which may be a viscous or viscoelastic fluid, blood flows consist of ...