ISSN:
0032-3888
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
The mechanics of a bicomponent two-layer blown film coextrusion is studied theoretically. As a first step for the modeling of this complex process, we adopt a simple system in which the flow is assumed to be isothermal and the two layers are a Newtonian and an upper-convected Maxwell fluid (UCM), respectively. The two fluids are chosen to investigate the relative influence of viscous and viscoelastic forces on the flow mechanics of the process. For a given total flow rate, blow-up ratio, freeze-line height, and film gage, the radius and the melt thickness profiles of the blown film are determined numerically for various values of the flow rate ratio of the two fluids. When the relaxation time of the UCM layer is small, the flow mechanics including the shape of the bubble (or the radius profile) is not much different from that of a Newtonian single-layer flow. With increasing relaxation time, the viscoelasticity effect of the UCM layer becomes more and more pronounced and eventually dominates the bubble dynamics even though its layer thickness may be smaller than that of the Newtonian layer.
Additional Material:
5 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760322306
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