Birefringent strands in polymer flows in a co-rotating two-roll mill

DOI10.1016/S0377-0257(02)00012-5MaRDI QIDQ1860352zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Isaac C. Y. Lee, N. Kapur, M. D. Savage, G. M. Homsy, P. H. Gaskell

Publication date 23 February 2003

Published in Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

birefringencetwo-roll millspolymer strand theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05)

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