Melt spinning operational stability

The book begins with introductory material and a brief review of fundamentals, after which the first part focuses on analytical treatments of basic polymer processes extrusion, mold filling, fiber spinning, and so forth. The thin gap (lubrication) and thin filament approximations are employed, and all analyses in this part are for inelastic liquids. An introduction to finite element calculation follows, where full numerical solutions are compared to analytical results. Polymer rheology is then introduced, with an emphasis on relatively simple viscoelastic models that have been used with some success to model processing operations. Applications in which melt viscoelasticity is important are then revisited, followed by a chapter on stability and sensitivity that focuses on melt spinning and a chapter on wall slip and extrusion... 

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