Flow of viscoelastic fluids through banks of cylinders: an experimental and numerical investigation

In this research it is attempted to determine whether the pressure drop for a polymer melt flowing transversely through a square array of cylinders can be predicted using purely viscous models or whether a viscoelastic constitutive equation is required. To predict these pressure drops, finite elemen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartt, William H.
Other Authors: Chemical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38262
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-164249/