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Pressure drop Ap from Equation 5.2<br />

Example 5<br />

Melt flow through a quadratic cross section with the length of a side a = 2.62 mm. The<br />

channel length L = 50 mm. The resin is LDPE with the following constants for the power<br />

law relation in Equation 1.32:<br />

Following conditions are given:<br />

mass flow rate<br />

melt temperature<br />

melt density<br />

The pressure drop Ap is to be calculated.<br />

Solution<br />

Three methods of calculation will be presented to find the pressure drop in this example.<br />

Method a<br />

With this method, the melt viscosity is calculated according to the power law. Other than<br />

that, the method of calculation is the same as in the foregoing examples.<br />

Volume flow rate<br />

Shear rate<br />

For a square with W=H the shear rate yz is<br />

Power law exponent n:

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