Simulation of polymeric flows in the injection moulding process

Recent progress in the simulation of polymeric flows of two key problems in the injection moulding process, carried out by a team at Cornell University, is briefly described. For the filling of cooled thin cavities, the fluid is characterized by a power-law viscosity with exponential temperature dependence, and interaction between the transient thermal boundary-layer and the core flow in a domain with moving boundary is essential. The earlier procedure of Hieber and Shen is modified in two aspects: a boundary-integral formulation replaces the finite-element treatment of the pressure, and an ‘energy integral’ approach is used for the transient temperature. The second problem is the steady visco-elastic flow in the juncture region where sudden changes of the geometry and large strain rates occur. The constitutive equation is postulated according to the Leonov model. The main features in the numerical implementation are: integration along a streamline to determine the elastic deformation tensors for a given velocity field, and finite-element treatment (in time-dependent form) of the pressure and fields for given stresses. In an example where the contraction ratio is 7:1, results for nominal Deborah number exceeding 100 show no numerical instability. (However, for this problem, the true Weissenberg number, i.e. the ratio of local first-normal-stress difference to shear stress turns out to be generally O(10).) The predictions also correlate very well with experimental birefringence measurements.     

Heat transfer to non-Newtonian flows over a cylinder in cross flow

Over a range of 102<Re^*<5800, 6.5<Pr^*<79, and 0.6<n<1, circumferential wall temperatures for water and aqueous polymer (purely viscous) solution flows over a smooth cylinder were measured experimentally. The cylinder was heated by passing direct electric current through it. Aqueous solutions of Carbopol 934 and EZ1 were used as power-law non-Newtonian fluids. The peripherally averaged heat transfer coefficient for purely viscous non-Newtonian fluids, at any fixed flow rate, decreases with increasing polymer concentration. A new correlation is proposed for predicting the peripherally averaged Nusselt number for power-law fluid flows over a heated cylinder in cross flow.     

Faraday instability with a polymer solution

We present an experimental study of the Faraday instability in which we compare the behavior of a Newtonian fluid (water-glycerine mixture) with that of a semi-dilute non-Newtonian solution of high molecular weight polymer. We show that although the dispersion relation of surface waves, derived for a layer of inviscid fluid, remains valid in that particular non-Newtonian case, the behavior of the instability threshold with frequency strongly differs from the Newtonian case. We explain this effect as a result of a frequency-dependent viscosity. The linear stability analysis of the non-Newtonian case shows a perfect agreement with the experimental results both for the dispersion relation and for the reduction of the instability threshold. We discuss the use of the characteristics of the Faraday experiment as a measurement tool to determine frequency dependent properties of non-Newtonian fluids. Received 5 January 1999     

一类带有非牛顿位势的可压缩Navier-Stokes方程整体强解的存在性

主要研究了一类带有非牛顿位势的可压缩Navier-Stokes方程:其中粘性系数μ依赖于密度ρ,Φ是非牛顿位势.证明了上述问题的强解的存在性.在相容性条件下,得到了强解的唯一性.     

具有多重非线性的非牛顿多方渗流方程的整体存在性与非存在性

考虑了一个具有多重非线性的抛物模型中,非线性扩散项、非线性反应项和非线性边界流三种非线性机制之间的相互作用.通过构造自相似上解和自相似下解,获得了临界整体存在性曲线和临界Fujita曲线.     

A thin-film model for corotational Jeffreys fluids under strong slip

We derive a thin-film model for viscoelastic liquids under strong slip which obey the stress tensor dynamics of corotational Jeffreys fluids.