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Steady-state simulation of the film-casting process for Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids

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Steady-state simulation of the film-casting process for Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids
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Article in International Scientific Journal
Year
2023
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Pimenta, F
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Alves, MA
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Vol. 322
ISSN: 0377-0257
Publisher: Elsevier
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Abstract (EN): Thin polymeric films are usually produced in an extensional flow between an extrusion head and a chill roll. The final product is prone to several defects, such as reduced width and non-uniform thickness, and a better understanding of the whole process can improve the final product quality and reduce wastes. This work revisits the film-casting process by exploring the scaling relation between different variables, with particular focus on the width reduction (neck-in). The numerical simulations are carried out for Newtonian, Upper-Convected Maxwell and Giesekus fluids in isothermal and steady-state conditions, for varying film aspect ratio (AR; film width over length), draw ratio (DR) and Deborah number (De). The governing equations are discretized with finite-volumes in their full form (3D model) and using an approximate 2.5D model. However, the latter has been mainly used in this study, as it offered similar accuracy as the 3D model, at a much lower computational cost. The results show that the normalized film shape is independent of the aspect ratio for sufficiently high values of this parameter and that the film thickness scales with DR according to the theoretical prediction for planar and uniaxial extensional flows, in the centre and edge regions, respectively. The neck-in grows logarithmically with the draw ratio for high AR, with a De-dependent growth rate (higher De leads to lower neck-in and lower dependence on DR). There is a reasonable correlation between the neck-in and the ratio between the planar and uniaxial extensional viscosities, as well as between the neck-in and dimensionless variable M = ln(DR)/(De+¿), where ¿ is a constant which depends on the fluid rheology. However, none of the correlations offer a perfect fit to the neck-in and the search for such a correlation (or master curve) shall be pursued in future works. © 2023 The Author(s)
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