pps proceeding
Symposium: S07 - Process Modeling and Simulation Oral Presentation
Multi-scale simulations of polymer melt flow in a contraction and expansion channel
TANIGUCHI Takashi (1)*, HARADA Kohei (1)
(1) Kyoto University - Kyoto - Japan
We investigated a flow of a polymer melt with a molecular weight distribution
in a channel with 4:1:4 contraction and expansion geometry
by using a multi-scale simulation (MSS) method where a macroscopic model and microscopic molecular model
are directly connected through the velocity gradient field and stress field.
In the MSS method, we introduced Lagrangian particles, each of which contain many
chains to precisely maintain the microscopic states.
As the microscopic polymer model, a slip-link model is used.
As a result, we clarified the relation between the macroscopic flow behavior and
molecular level information such as a local polymer configuration
and spatial distribution of number of entanglements per chain.