Negative Pressures in Modelling Rotating Polymer Processing Machinery Are Meaningless, But They Are Telling Something

Abstract In the technical literature, some authors have reported calculation of negative pressures in simulations of twin screw extrusion and other types of processing, without giving any explanations. In the majority publications there is no mention of such meaningless results, even though theoretical considerations indicate that negative pressures could be obtained in the expansion region of drag flows through narrow non-parallel surfaces. …