SGER: Development of Global Mixing Measures for the Comparison of Polymer Processing Equipment

小行星9315903 这是调查的可行性，开发全球措施的混合用于评估混合器的设计，并比较各种混合配置的混合性能的基础上的性能。 混合程度的定量评价是聚合物和弹性体加工中的一个关键问题，所提出的方法，它试图发展的混合和混沌理论的全球细节之间的定量关系，是一个新的。 如果可以开发出一种易于评估的全局混合措施，则可以定量评估聚合物和弹性体加工的混合方面的选择和优化。 目前，由于混合效率的不确定性，材料通常是“过度混合”的。 这种做法既费时又费力。

9315903 Bigio This is investigate the feasibility of developing global measures of mixing to be used in the evaluation of mixer designs and to compare the performance of various mixing configurations based on mixing performance. The quantitative evaluation of mixing extent is a critical problem in polymer and elastomer processing and the proposed approach, which attempts to develop a quantitative relationship between the global details of mixing and chaos theory, is a novel one. If an easily evaluated, global measure of mixing can be developed, the selection and optimization of the mixing aspects polymer and elastomer processing can be quantitatively evaluated. At present, materials are typically "overmixed" because of uncertainty in the mixing efficiency. Such practices are both time and energy inefficient.