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Wall slip with concentrated dispersions Melt fracture at r,. lO Pa... 

Imposition of no-slip velocity conditions at solid walls is based on the assumption that the shear stress at these surfaces always remains below a critical value to allow a complete welting of the wall by the fluid. This iraplie.s that the fluid is constantly sticking to the wall and is moving with a velocity exactly equal to the wall velocity. It is well known that in polymer flow processes the shear stress at the domain walls frequently surpasses the critical threshold and fluid slippage at the solid surfaces occurs. Wall-slip phenomenon is described by Navier s slip condition, which is a relationship between the tangential component of the momentum flux at the wall and the local slip velocity (Sillrman and Scriven, 1980). In a two-dimensional domain this relationship is expressed as... 

The fact that the appearance of a wall slip at sufficiently high shear rates is a property inwardly inherent in filled polymers or an external manifestation of these properties may be discussed, but obviously, the role of this effect during the flow of compositions with a disperse filler is great. The wall slip, beginning in the region of high shear rates, was marked many times as the effect that must be taken into account in the analysis of rheological properties of filled polymer melts [24, 25], and the appearance of a slip is initiated in the entry (transitional) zone of the channel [26]. It is quite possible that in reality not a true wall slip takes place, but the formation of a low-viscosity wall layer depleted of a filler. This is most characteristic for the systems with low-viscosity binders. From the point of view of hydrodynamics, an exact mechanism of motion of a material near the wall is immaterial, since in any case it appears as a wall slip. 

In this sense for calculating a bulk output Q during the flow with wall slip as a first approximation the following formula can be used ... 

If it is known that a particular form of relation, such as the power-law model, is applicable, it is not necessary to maintain a constant shear rate. Thus, for instance, a capillary tube viscometer can be used for determination of the values of the two parameters in the model. In this case it is usually possible to allow for the effects of wall-slip by making measurements with tubes covering a range of bores and extrapolating the results to a tube of infinite diameter. Details of the method are given by Farooqi and Richardson. 21 ... 

Kn = 0.01-0.1 Slip flow rarefaction effects that can be modeled with a modified continuum theory with wall slip taken into consideration... 

Any rheometric technique involves the simultaneous assessment of force, and deformation and/or rate as a function of temperature. Through the appropriate rheometrical equations, such basic measurements are converted into quantities of rheological interest, for instance, shear or extensional stress and rate in isothermal condition. The rheometrical equations are established by considering the test geometry and type of flow involved, with respect to several hypotheses dealing with the nature of the fluid and the boundary conditions the fluid is generally assumed to be homogeneous and incompressible, and ideal boundaries are considered, for instance, no wall slip. 

Simulations are then performed for gas bubbles emerging from a single nozzle with 0.4 cm I.D. at an average nozzle velocity of lOcm/s. The experimental measurements of inlet gas injection velocity in the nozzle using an FMA3306 gas flow meter reveals an inlet velocity fluctuation of 3-15% of the mean inlet velocity. A fluctuation of 10% is imposed on the gas velocity for the nozzle to represent the fluctuating nature of the inlet gas velocities. The initial velocity of the liquid is set as zero. An inflow condition and an outflow condition are assumed for the bottom wall and the top walls, respectively, with the free-slip boundary condition for the side walls. 

When trying to determine the flow behaviour of a material suspected of exhibiting wall slip, the procedure is first to establish whether slip occurs and how significant it is. The magnitude of slip is then determined and by subtracting the flow due to slip from the measured flow rate, the genuine flow rate can be determined. The standard Rabinowitsch-Mooney equation can then be used with the corrected flow rates to determine the tw-jw curve. Alternatively, the results can be presented as a plot of tw against the corrected flow characteristic, where the latter is calculated from the corrected value of the flow rate. 

In order to determine whether slip occurs with a particular material, it is essential to make measurements with tubes of various diameters. In equation 3.66, the value of the integral term is a function of the wall shear stress only. Thus, in the absence of wall slip, the flow characteristic 8 u/dt is a unique function of tw. However, if slip occurs, the term 8vjd will be different for different values of d, at the same value of tu., as shown in Figure 3.11. It is clear from equation 3.66 that for a given value of the slip velocity vs, the effect of slip is greater in tubes of smaller diameter. If the effect of slip is dominant, that is the bulk of the material experiences negligible shearing, then it can be seen from equation 3.66 that on a plot of... 

Having established that wall slip occurs but is not dominant, the procedure is to estimate the value of v, and hence calculate a corrected flow rate by subtracting the slip flow from the measured flow rate. In general it is found that the slip velocity increases with tw and decreases with d, although in some cases vs is independent of dt. Consequently, it can be seen from equation 3.66 that the effect of slip decreases as d, increases, and becomes negligible at very large diameters. 

The other approach is to scale up the genuine flow, then add the slip flow for the appropriate pipe diameter. Scale up of the genuine flow can be done as described in Section 3.3 or Section 3.4. In order to assess the flow due to wall slip in the pipe, it is necessary to have information about the variation of vs with tw and dt unless it is assumed that the pipe is large enough for the effect of slip to be negligible. If slip velocity data are available, implying that the apparent fluidity plots are also available, then it would be easier to use these plots directly. 

Princen [57, 64, 82] and others [84] also noted the presence of wall-slip in rheological experiments on HIPEs and foams. However, instead of attempting to eliminate this phenomenon, Princen [64] employed it to examine the flow properties of the boundary layer between the bulk emulsion and the container walls, and demonstrated the existence of a wall-slip yield stress, below that of the bulk emulsion. This was attributed to roughness of the viscometer walls. Princen and Kiss [57], and others [85], have also showed that wall-slip could be eliminated, up to a certain finite stress value, by roughening the walls of the viscometer. Alternatively [82, 86], it was demonstrated that wall-slip can be corrected for and effectively removed from calculations. Thus, viscometers with smooth walls can be used. This is preferable, as the degree of roughness required to completely eradicate wall-slip is difficult to determine. 

With heterogeneous substances such as foodstuffs, many of which are filled suspensions of proteins, carbohydrates and triglycerides, it can be theorized that complex ionic interactions generating repulsive forces could occur and cause wall-slip. 

Wall-slip is not an easy phenomenon to detect. Although in principle, the velocity profile should reveal whether or not the fluid velocity is zero at the stationary wall, in reality determining the velocity profile with sufficient resolution near the wall is very difficult. So alternate means, e.g., checking for viscosity variation with appropriate changes in the test geometry, are also widely used in practice. 

The feed properties of different profiles depend on the type of product being transported. An optimum scenario would be a bulk product with perfect wall slips that could be transported without deformation. In this case, a profile with pitch T and free cross-section surface Afree could convey a volume of Afree each revolution. Its inherent throughput would be... 

Polymer chains anchored on solid surfaces play a key role on the flow behavior of polymer melts. An important practical example is that of constant speed extrusion processes where various flow instabilities (called sharkskin , periodic deformation or melt fracture) have been observed to develop above given shear stress thresholds. The origin of these anomalies has long remained poorly understood [123-138]. It is now well admitted that these anomalies are related to the appearance of flow with slip at the wall. It is reasonable to think that the onset of wall slip is related to the strength of the interactions between the solid surface and the melt, and thus should be sensitive to the presence of polymer chains attached to the surface. 

Recent experimental data [28] indeed show that a weak interface can be created by lowering the surface energy with an fluorocarbon elastomer coating. On such a weakly adsorbing die wall, a macroscopic slip occurs in linear polyeth-ylenes during capillary die extrusion. However, the same surface fails to produce any observable wall slip at low stresses that can be reliably generated in a parallel-plate flow cell. This contrast emphasizes that massive polymer desorption and interfacial slip occur only beyond a critical wall stress. 

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