RESIDENCE TIME AND DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE REAL SCREW EXTRUDER

摘要

We consider distributive mixing in the single-screw extrusion process. Several mixing measures in the extrusion process were proposed in the literature to quantify the mixing performance. In our previous research, we proposed the "Deformation Characteristics" (DC) as a new deformation measure of the screw extrusion process using the Cauchy-Green deformation tensor. In this work, the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method has been employed for numerical integrations to obtain the residence time and the deformation characteristics, using the three-dimensional velocity fields obtained by the finite element analysis with the periodic boundary conditions along the down-channel direction in the real screw geometry.