The current capabilities of numerical codes, able to model very complex processes, and the existing powerful computational resources, clearly
promote the advantages of employing numerical modelling tools to assist any design related tasks. For more than a decade, the Computational
Rheology Group, from the Institute for Polymers and Composites / University of Minho (IPC/UMinho), has been developing and exploiting
modelling codes to aid the design of different tools, with a special focus on polymer processing applications. During the last 5 years, most of the
numerical developments done at IPC/UMinho are based on the OpenFOAM® computational library. This talk aims to provide an overview of the
computational rheology related work done at IPC/UMinho by a large group of researchers, in many cases in close cooperation with industry, and
to report the advantages of using computational codes based on OpenFOAM® to support design activitie
