There is a wide field of research on the physical properties of non-isothermal pseudoplastic fluid flow. These researches help to avoid processing failures in the fields of thermoplastics. The present work presents the effects of flow inside cavities with groove profiles. For the simulations, the Ansys fluent software was used, considering steady-state flow without incompressible fluid slip. The government equations used in the simulations were mass conservation, momentum conservation and energy conservation. In order to discretize the equations, the finite volume method was used. Similar processes are seen in the thermoplastic injection industry which justifies the intention to identify the aspects of the process which hinders thermal exchange and favors the formation of undesirable physical properties in the injected parts. The implemented viscosity model was validated with the literature and consequently allowing the application of a complete analysis of the physical properties in the flow of molten polymers.
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