Design Guidelines to Balance the Flow Distribution in Complex Profile Extrusion Dies

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017

Authors

Rajkumar, A (Author) Other; Ferras, LL (Author) Other; Fernandes, C (Author) Other; Carneiro, OS (Author) Other; Becker, M (Author) Other; Nobrega, JM (Author) Other

Journal

Title: International Polymer Processing

Vol. 32

Pages: 58-71

ISSN: 0930-777X

Publisher: Walter De Gruyter

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00M-HRY

DOI: 10.3139/217.3272

Abstract (EN): In this work a novel methodology to balance the flow distribution in complex extrusion dies is proposed. For this purpose, the profile cross section geometry is divided into simpler geometries (L and T shaped profiles), which are balanced with a surrogate model obtained by a detailed numerical study. The numerical simulations are performed considering the non-isothermal flow of Bird-Carreau inelastic fluids, and the numerical computations are performed with a solver implemented in OpenFOAM computational library. The proposed methodology is assessed with some case studies.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14