About Us

Our History

Plastic Flow, LLC was established in 2002 to offer the PELDOM software to the plastic industry. PELDOM is the only software which can simulate a polymeric flow with completely independent shear and elongational viscosities for the polymer. This novel and unique software is based upon Prof. Mahesh Gupta's polymer processing research since 1987. The dedication and innovative skills of Prof. Gupta and his graduate students has resulted in many of the world's first polymer processing simulations.

2003: Fully animated simulation of the flow in a twin-screw extruder including the effect of elongational viscosity
2003: Analysis of the effect of elongational viscosity on temperature, pressure and velocity distributions in a flat die
2000: Introduced Sarkar-Gupta elongational viscosity model
1999: Analysis of the effect of elongational viscosity on vortex formation and pressure distribution in axisymmetric, planar and three-dimensional entrance flows
1997: Computer simulation of sink-mark formation in injection-molded plastic parts
1992: Three-dimensional simulation of the fiber orientation and corresponding mechanical properties of short-fiber-reinforced injection-molded plastic parts
1990: Three-dimensional simulation of polymeric flow in extrusions dies using multivariant finite elements