Polymer Melt Processing
Foundations in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

This book is on the underlying foundations of the processing of polymer melts.

Morton M. Denn (Author)

9780521899697, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 August 2008

264 pages
26 x 18.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.81 kg

'I highly recommend this book. It can be used as a textbook for a course in polymer processing for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students as well as a reference book for engineers and scientists who are interested in polymer processing. All readers will find it easy to read, interesting, authoritative, thoughtful and instructive.' AIChE Journal

Most of the shaping in the manufacture of polymeric objects is carried out in the melt state, as it is a substantial part of the physical property development. Melt processing involves an interplay between fluid mechanics and heat transfer in rheologically complex liquids, and taken as a whole it is a nice example of the importance of coupled transport processes. This book is on the underlying foundations of polymer melt processing, which can be derived from relatively straightforward ideas in fluid mechanics and heat transfer; the level is that of an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course, and the material can serve as the text for a course in polymer processing or for a second course in transport processes.

1. Polymer processing
2. Fundamentals
3. Extrusion
4. Temperature and pressure effects in flow
5. The thin gap approximation
6. Quasi-steady analysis of mold filling
7. Fiber spinning
8. Numerical simulation
9. Polymer melt rheology
10. Viscoelasticity in processing flows
11. Stability and sensitivity
12. Wall slip and extrusion
13. Structured fluids
14. Mixing and dispersion.

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG], Thermodynamics & heat [PHH]