A comparison of the stress and birefringence growth of dilute, semi-dilute and concentrated polymer solutions in uniaxial extensional flows

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 108, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 275-290

  Rothstein, Jonathan P ^a   McKinley, Gareth H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensional rheology; Filament strectching; Stress conformation hysteresis

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CONFORMATIONS; HYSTERESIS; POLYSTYRENES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STRESSES;

POLYMER SOLUTION;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

BIREFRINGENCE; EXTENSIONAL FLOW; FLOW ANALYSIS; POLYMER SOLUTION; STRESS;

EID: 0037203409     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(02)00134-9     Document Type: Article

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