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Chaotic Advection, Chaotic Mixing, Polymer Films, Polymer Processing, Polymer Blends and Composites;
Modeling of Multicomponent Flows
Heat and Mass Transfer

Category 1: Chaotic Advection/Mixing, Polymer Processing,
Polymer Blends and Composites, Modeling of Multicomponent Flows

Zumbrunnen, D. A. and Sakai, Tadamoto, “Chaotic Blending: A New Versatile Polymer Blending Technology Based on Recent Advances in Fluid Mechanics,” Plastics Age Magazine, Vol. 53, pp. 76-85, 2007 (in Japanese).
Karmakar, R., Zumbrunnen, D. A., and Jin, X., “Extruded PLA-LLDPE Films with Bi-functional Blend Morphology Formed with a Continuous Chaotic Blender for Barrier and Toughness Improvements,” Proceedings of the 65th Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 2619-2623, 2007.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., Subrahmanian, R., Kulshreshtha, B., and Mahesha, C., "Smart Blending Technology Enabled by Chaotic Advection," Advances in Polymer Technology, Vol. 25, pp. 152-169, 2006.
Joshi, A. S. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Computational Clarifications of Experimental Blend Morphology Development in Immiscible Polymer Melts Organized by Chaotic Advection,” Chemical Engineering Communications, Vol. 193, pp. 765-781, 2006.
Mahesha, C. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Volumetric Orientation and Selective Placement of Nano-platelets by Chaotic Advection in Extrusions: Further Information on Structure-Process Relations,” Proceedings of the 64th Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 491-496, 2006.
Kulshreshtha, B., Chougule, V., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Electrical Resistivities and Internal Structures of Multiwall Nanotube-Polypropylene Composites Produced with a Continuous Chaotic Blender,” Proceedings of the 64th Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 441-446, 2006.
Dhoble, A., Kulshreshtha, B., Ramaswami, S., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Mechanical Properties of PP-LDPE Blends with Novel Morphologies Produced with a Continuous Chaotic Advection Blender," Polymer, Vol. 46, pp. 2244-2256, 2005.
Chougule, V. A. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "In Situ Assembly Using a Continuous Chaotic Advection Blending Process of Electrically Conducting Networks in Carbon Black-Thermoplastic Extrusions," Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 60, pp. 2459-2467, 2005 .
LaCoste, A., Schaich, K. M., Zumbrunnen, D. A., and Yam, K. L., "Advanced Controlled Release Packaging Through Smart Blending," Packaging Technology and Science, Vol. 18, pp. 77-87, 2005.
Mahesha, C., Zumbrunnen, D. A., and Parulekar, Y., “Novel Clay Nanocomposites with Platelets Oriented by Chaotic Advection,” Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, Boston, MA, 2005, pp. 1920-1924.
Joshi, A. S. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Influence of Shear on Immiscible Polymer Blend Morphology Development by Chaotic Advection,” Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, Boston, MA, 2005 pp. 2385-2390 (www.4spe.org).
Chougule, V. A., Kimmel, R. M., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Development of Novel Barrier Films Using Chaotic Advection ‘Smart Blending’ Device,” Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, Boston, MA, 2005 pp. 2976-2981.
Kulshreshtha, B., Dhoble, A., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Mechanical Property Optimization of Polypropylene Based Blends Using a Continuous Chaotic Advection Blender,” Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, Boston, MA, 2005, pp. 2418-2423.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., Kulshreshtha, B., and Dhoble, A., “On-Line Morphology Control Features of Continuous Chaotic Advection Blenders,” Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Technical Conference, Society of Plastics Engineers, Boston, MA, 2005, pp. 238-243.
Kwon, O. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Production of Barrier Films by Chaotic Mixing of Plastics," Polymer Engineering & Science, Vol. 43, pp. 1443-1459, 2003.
Joshi, A. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Morphology Transitions in Multilayer Melts Due to the Growth and Interaction of Holes," Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Nashville, TN, www.4spe.org (available on CD ROM).
Zumbrunnen, D. A., Inamdar, S., Kwon, O., and Verma, P., "Chaotic Advection as a Means to Develop Nano-Scale Structures in Viscous Melts," Nano Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 10, pp. 1143-1148, 2002.
Zumbrunnen, D. A. and Chhibber, C., "Morphology Development in Polymer Blends Produced by Chaotic Mixing at Various Compositions," Polymer, Vol. 43, pp. 3267-3277, 2002.
Danescu, R. I. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Computational Simulation of Controllable Structure Formation Among Particle Additives in a Continuous-Flow Chaotic Mixer,” Journal of Powder Technology, Vol. 125, pp. 251-259, 2002.
Zumbrunnen, D. A. and Inamdar, S. I., "Novel Sub-micron Highly Multilayered Polymer Films Formed by Continuous Flow Chaotic Mixing," Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 56, pp. 3893-3897, 2001.
Kwon, O. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Progressive Morphology Development to Produce Multilayer Film and Interpenetrating Blends by Chaotic Mixing," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol.82, No. 7, pp. 1569-1579, 2001-featured on cover.
Seyfzadeh, B. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Non-Newtonian Flow and Debris Deposition in an Extrusion Filter Medium," Proceedings of the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield, Connecticut, Vol. I-Processing, pp. 340-344, 2001.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Smart Blending: A Means to Obtain Fibers and Plastic Products with Tailored Properties," Journal of The Textile Institute, Part 3, Vol. 91, pp. 92-104, 2000.
Danescu, R. I. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Production of Electrically Conducting Plastic Composites by Three-Dimensional Chaotic Mixing of Melts and Powder Additives,” Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology, Vol. 6, pp. 27-33, 2000.
Liu, Y. H. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Toughness Enhancement in Polymer Blends Due to the In-Situ Formation by Chaotic Mixing of Fine-Scale Extended Structures," Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 34, pp. 1701-1711, 1999-featured on cover.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., "The Production of Improved Plastic Materials by Chaotic Mixing of Polymer Melts Recovered from Environmental Waste," in: Energy and the Environment, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 113-124, 1999.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Microstructures and Physical Properties of Composite Materials Evolved from Chaos," in: Proceedings of the 4th Experimental Chaos Conference, M. Ding, W. Ditto, L. Pecora, M. Spano, and S. Vohra, editors, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, pp. 223-228, 1998.
Liu, Y. H. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Progressive Microstructure Development by Chaotic Mixing of Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Thermoplastics and Corresponding Tensile Strengths," Proceedings of the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield, Connecticut, Vol. II-Materials, Session M10, Paper #23, 1998 (on CD ROM). (Paper received a SPE Best Paper Award.)
Danescu, R. I. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Creation of Conducting Networks among Particles in Polymer Melts by Chaotic Mixing," Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Vol. 11, pp. 299-320, 1998.
Zhang, D. F., Zumbrunnen, D. A., and Liu, Y. H., "Morphology Development in Shear Flows of Straight and Folded Molten Fibers," AIChE Journal, Vol. 44, pp. 442-451, 1998.
Liu, Y.H., and Zumbrunnen, D.A., "Emergence of Fibrillar Composites Due to Chaotic Mixing of Molten Polymers", Polymer Composties, Vol. 17, pp 187-197, 1996.
Zhang, D. F. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., ``Influences of Fluidic Interfaces on the Formation of Fine Scale Structures by Chaotic Mixing,'' Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 118, pp.40-46, 1996.
Zhang, D. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Chaotic Mixing of Two Similar Fluids in the Presence of a Third Dissimilar Fluid," AIChE Journal, Vol. 42, pp. 3301-3309, 1996.
Zumbrunnen, D.A., Miles, K.C., and Liu, Y.H., "Auto-Processing of Very Fine-Scale Composite Materials by Chaotic Mixing of Melts," Composites Part A, Vol. 27A, pp 37-47, 1996.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Composite Materials Evolved from Chaos," in: Proceedings of the 3rd Experimental Chaos Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, R. G. Harrison, W. P. Lu, W. P. Ditto, L. Pecora, M. Spano, and S. Vohra editors, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, pp. 267-271, 1996.
Miles, K. C., Nagarajan, B., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Three-Dimensional Chaotic Mixing of Fluids in a Cylindrical Cavity," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 117, pp. 582-588, 1995.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Chaotic Mixing as a Means to Synthesize Fine-Scale Composite Structures," Proceedings of the NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, University of California / San Diego, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, pp. 515-516, 1995.
Zhang, D. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Influences of Fluidic Interfaces During Formation of Fine-Scale Composites by Chaotic Mixing of Melts," Proceedings of the 30th National Heat Transfer Conference, ASME, New York, HTD-Vol. 306, pp. 81-93, 1995.
Liu, Y. H. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Emergence of Fibrillar Composites Due to Chaotic Mixing of Molten Polymers," Proceedings of the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Vol. II-Materials, pp. 3104-3108, 1995.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Auto-Synthesis of Fine-Scale Composite Materials by Chaotic Mixing," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Composites Engineering, International Community for Composites Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 28-31, pp. 601 - 602, 1994.
Miles, K. C., Liu, Y., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Direct Synthesis of Very Fine-Scale Composites by Chaotic Mixing of Molten Precursors," Proceedings of the ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Thermal Processing of Materials, HTD-Vol. 289, pp. 189-201, 1994.

Category 2: Heat and Mass Transfer

Mladin, E. C. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Instantaneous Behavior of Pulsating Submerged Planar Jets," Proceedings of the 5th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer," Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2001.
Sankhe, S. Y., Hirt, D. E., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Effect of Interdiffusion Regions on Penetrant Flux Through Multilayer Films," Polymer Engineering & Science, Vol. 41, pp. 2185-2193, 2001.
Mladin, E. C. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Alterations to Coherent Flow Structures and Heat Transfer Due to Pulsations in an Impinging Air Jet,” International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 39, pp. 236-248, 2000.
Sheriff, H. S. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., “Local and Instantaneous Heat Transfer Characteristics of Arrays of Pulsating Jets,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 121, pp. 341-348, 1999.
Sheriff, H. S. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Means to Improve the Heat Transfer Performance of Air Jet Arrays where Supply Pressures Are Limiting," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 120, pp. 787-789, 1998.
Sheriff, H. S. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., 1999, “Local and Instantaneous Heat Transfer Characteristics of Arrays of Pulsating Jets,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 121, pp. 341-348.
Liu, Y. H. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Solidification of Structured Melts," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 119, p. 202, 1997 (selected for 1st Heat Transfer Picture Gallery).
Brittingham, R. A., Mladin, E. C., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Heat Transfer Transients in Stagnation Flows Due to Single Changes in Flow Velocity," AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 10, pp. 186-189, 1995.
Balasubramanian, M. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement Due to Gas Injection into an Impinging Liquid Jet," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 117, pp. 1011-1017, 1995.
Mladin. E. C. and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Nonlinear Dynamics of Laminar Boundary Layers in Pulsatile Stagnation Flows," AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 8, pp. 514-523, 1994.
Mladin, E. C., and Zumbrunnen, D. A., "Dependence of Heat Transfer to a Pulsating Stagnation Flow on Pulse Characteristics," Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 9, pp. 181-192, 1995.
Chen, J., Wang, T., and Zumbrunnen, D.A., "Numerical Analysis of Convective Heat Transfer from a Moving Plate Cooled by an Array of Submerged Planar Jets," Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 26, pp. 141-152, 1994.
Zumbrunnen, D. A., and Aziz, M., "Convective Heat Transfer Enhancement due to Intermittency in an Impinging Jet," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 115, pp. 91-98, 1993.
Zumbrunnen, D.A., "Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in the Stagnation Region of a Planar Jet Impinging on a Moving Surface," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 113, pp. 563-570, 1991.

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