Microrheology of colloidal dispersions by Brownian dynamics simulations

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1483-1502

  Carpen, Ileana C ^a   Brady, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian dynamics; Colloidal suspension; Microrheology; Rheometry

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL SUSPENSION; EXTERNAL FORCE; NONLINEAR VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE; PARTICLE TRACKING MICRORHEOLOGY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBES;

RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33746242667     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.2085174     Document Type: Article

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