Polyflow is a unique, finite element-based, general purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics program which simulates the flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, with a special emphasis on rheologically complex liquids in industrial processes.
Polyflow is a fully interactive package and its ease of use makes it the ideal tool for engineers and scientists to study 2-D and 3-D flow and heat transfer problems, steady or time-dependent, with fixed or moving boundaries.
Polyflow is used to understand, modify and improve a variety of industrial processes, among which:
* Extrusion and coextrusion
* Die and screw design in extrusion
* Coating
* Blow molding
* Fiber spinning
* Film casting and film blowing
* Laminar mixing
* Heat transfer
* Chemical reactions
* Chemical Vapor Deposition
* Glass furnace simulations
It is being used to model processes for fluids such as polymer solutions, polymer melts, rubber, oils, detergents, printing inks or paints, muds, liquid food stuff and molten glass, among others. Polyflow contains unique features for the calculation of the important and frequently encountered viscoelastic effects in industrial flows, for the prediction of free surfaces and interfaces and the prediction of the die shape to obtain an extrudate of prescribed shape.
More than 150 major industrial sites and research groups use Polyflow worldwide to benefit from the savings of numberical simulation.
Christophe Waucquez
Research Assistant
Polyflow S.A.
16, Place de l'Universite
Louvain-la-Neuve, B-1348
Belgium
32-10-452-861
32-10-453-009 (fax)
polyflow@mema.ucl.ac.be
For applications in related solution areas, see the following indices: Computer-Aided Process Design, Design Optimization, Industrial R&D, Mechanical/Fluids CAE, Process Simulation, Simulation, the developer index for Polyflow S.A. and the market segment index for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
