Numerical solution of polymer self-consistent field theory

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 452-474

  Ceniceros, Hector D ^a   Fredrickson, Glenn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diblock coplymers; Incompressible melt blend; Multilevel relaxation; Semi implicit methods

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; COMPUTATION THEORY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; POLYMERS;

AB DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; DIBLOCKS; INHOMOGENEOUS DENSITY; MEAN FIELD EQUATION; MELT BLENDS; MULTILEVEL RELAXATION; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHODS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 23744512308     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/030601338     Document Type: Article

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