Rouse chains with excluded volume interactions in steady simple shear flow

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1353-1380

  Prakash, J Ravi ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ROUSE CHAINS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 0036869237     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.1514054     Document Type: Article

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