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Mathematical model and numerical analysis of heat-transfer processes associated with the melting of polymers in plasticating extruders

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A model of polymer melting in an extruder, based on the solution of the twodimensional nonstationary conservation equations, is proposed.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 75–80, January, 1985.

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Pervadchuk, V.P., Trufanova, N.M. & Yankov, V.I. Mathematical model and numerical analysis of heat-transfer processes associated with the melting of polymers in plasticating extruders. Journal of Engineering Physics 48, 60–64 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878258

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