Rheological properties of aqueous polyacrylamide solutions have been measured in shear and extensional hows. Elongational viscosity measurements were performed with an opposed-nozzles stressmeter. The FENE-P constitutive model is used for describing the rheological properties of the solution. A single relaxation time is sufficient to give satisfactory agreement between the FENE-P model and the measured properties. In view of the fact that the how in the opposing jets device is not purely extensional, a numerical simulation of the flow is made in order to interpret experimental results. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Purnode, B., & Crochet, M. (1998). Polymer solution characterization with the FENE-P model. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 77(1-2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-0257(97)00096-7 (Original work published 1998)