Abstract: | A method is proposed for calculating the pressure drop associated with the flow of polymeric systems (solutions, melts, and rubber blends) through short capillaries in which the steady-state flow regime is not established. The method is based on the assumption that the duration of deformation in the prestationary stage plays a decisive role. The results of the calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data.All-Union Scientific-Research and Design-Engineering Institute of the Rubber Industry, Volzhskii. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Volgograd Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 171–174, January–February, 1973. |