A unified approach to a variety of constitutive models for polymer fluids based on the concept of configuration-dependent molecular mobility

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 1982, Pages 366-375

  Giesekus, H ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

configuration tensor; Constitutive model; entangled network structure; polymer fluid; tensorial mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001260847     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: 14351528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01534296     Document Type: Article

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