Adaptive configuration fields: A new multiscale simulation technique for reptation-based models with a stochastic strain measure and local variations of life span distribution

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 108, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 99-122

  Gigras, Piyush G ^a   Khomami, Bamin ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration fields; Deformation fields; Entangled polymeric systems; Reptation; Simulation algorithm

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRAIN;

COMPLEX FLOW;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

ALGORITHM; FLOW MODELING; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; POLYMER;

EID: 0037203441     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(02)00126-X     Document Type: Article

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