Computing the trivariate chain length/degree of branching/number of combination points distribution for radical polymerization with transfer to polymer and recombination termination

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 505-518

  Iedema, Piet D ^a   Hoefsloot, Huub C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Branched; Molecular weight distribution molar mass distribution; Monte Carlo simulation; Polyethylene; Population balance

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYNOMIALS;

BINOMIAL ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS; BRANCHED; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION BALANCE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 27744456132     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.200500038     Document Type: Article

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