1. ABOUT THE DATASET
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Title:  Temperature Dependent Polymer Flow Induced Crystallisation Dataset

Creator(s): William Grant

Organisation(s): University of Leeds

Rights-holder(s): Copyright 2024 University of Leeds

Publication Year: 2024

Description: This dataset contains simulation data for temperature dependent flow induced crystallisation of polymeric melts in the RheoTool toolkit within the CFD software OpenFOAM.

Cite as: W P Grant, O G Harlen, D J Read (2024) Dataset for 'Computational Fluid Dynamics of Temperature Dependent Polymer Flow Induced Crystallisation using the PolySTRAND Model'. University of Leeds. Temperature Dependent Data https://doi.org/10.5518/1618.

Related publication: W P Grant, O G Harlen, D J Read. 'Computational Fluid Dynamics of Temperature Dependent Polymer Flow Induced Crystallisation using the PolySTRAND Model'. Journal of Rheology. 2024. (In preparation).



2. TERMS OF USE
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.]


3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION
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Title: Computational Fluid Dynamics of Temperature Dependent Polymer Flow Induced Crystallisation using the PolySTRAND Model

Dates: October 2020-September 2024

Funding organisation: EPSRC

Grant no.: EP/S022473/1


4. CONTENTS
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File listing

This dataset contains simulation data for temperarure dependent flow induced crystallisation of polymeric melts in the RheoTool toolkit within the CFD software OpenFOAM.

There is data for the simulations where the wall of the mesh is cold relative to the polymer melt and when the wall is hot relative to the polymer melt along with the isothermal simulation that was used for comparison.


The images folder contains all the images used in this particular investigation.

The code folder contains text files that include the code for the constitutive model used in RheoTool along with the crystallisationModel files for the changes to the energy equation required in rheoTool. There are also predictions by the polySTRAND model for the nucleation rate for different temperatures along with the python script for the least squares regression used to calculate the constants for the interpolation function used for the nucleation rate.

5. METHODS
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The RheoTool toolkit within OpenFOAM was used to generate the data. The solver rheoFoam was used. Version 7 of openFOAM was used.

Python was used via the reader Spyder. Python 3.8.10 was used.

Data was generated uder the PhD supervision of Oliver G Harlen and Daniel J Read. They are both co-authors on the relevant papers yet to be published.