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J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 166 (2011) 12–24 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/jnnfm Extrudate swell of linear and branched polyethylenes: ALE simulations and comparison with experiments Vivek Ganvir a,b, , B.P. Gautham a , Harshawardhan Pol c , M. Saad Bhamla d , Lino Sclesi e , Rochish Thaokar b , Ashish Lele c , Malcolm Mackley e a Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India b Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India c Polymer Science and Engineering Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India d Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India e Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Extrudate swell is a common phenomenon observed in the polymer extrusion industry. Accurate predic- Received 17 May 2010 tion of the dimensions of an extrudate is important for appropriate design of dies for profile extrusion Received in revised form 1 October 2010 applications. Prediction of extrudate swell has been challenging due to (i) difficulties associated with accu- Accepted 5 October 2010 rate representation of the constitutive behavior of polymer melts, and (ii) difficulties associated with the simulation of free surfaces, which requires special techniques in the traditionally used Eulerian frame-