WIT Press


Novel BEM Simulation Of Mixing In Polymer Flows Including Non-linear Effects

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

25

Pages

11

Published

1999

Size

907 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/BE990371

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

A.C. Rios & T.A. Osswald

Abstract

When numerically analyzing mixing in polymer processes, there are several difficulties that the engineer will encounter; such as moving boundaries, complex geometries and non-linear material behavior. The Boundary Element Method (BEM), as a technique which requires only boundaries (surfaces) to be meshed, is ideal to simulate problems with moving boundaries and complex geometries. However, the introduction of non-linear material behavior requires domain information. This study applies the Monte Carlo technique to integrate the domain and keep the boundary-only discretization. Results show the influence of non-linear effects, such as shear thinning viscosity, when characterizing mixing in polymer p

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