Brownian dynamics simulations of single DNA molecules in shear flow

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 713-742

  Hur, Joe S ^a   Shaqfeh, Eric S G ^a   Larson, Ronald G ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DNA; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MULTIMODE NONLINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR ELASTIC DUMBBELL; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SINGLE POLYMER CHAIN; WEISSENBERG NUMBER;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 0034215740     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.551115     Document Type: Article

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