Flow patterns in gas-assisted injection molding process in a channel

摘要

The flow field of a long bubble steadily expelling a viscous fluid confined by two closely located parallel plates is examined. In order to investigate the influence of bubble size on the flow field, a theoretical bubble profile is used to replace the complicated procedure for computing simultaneously the interface between the gas surface and fluid flows. The present study showed the two typical flow patterns and also a third flow pattern of the stagnation point moving in the region of the bubble tip front during transformation of the two typical flow patterns. The vorticity patterns are also drawn for various bubble profiles and are examined for their effect on the flow. The velocity field is also presented from two different viewpoints and the phenomena is examined. The stagnation point located on the center line between the bubble tip to the upstream is only found in the small range of 2/3 < λ < 0.685 in a channel, where A is ratio of the bubble width to the distance between two parallel plates.