Numerical method for hydrodynamic transport of inhomogeneous polymer melts

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 681-698

  Hall, David M ^a,c   Lookman, Turab ^c   Fredrickson, Glenn H ^b   Banerjee, Sanjoy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Barbara   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymer dynamics; Hydrodynamic self consistent field theory; Multiple fluid hydrodynamics; Wall penalization

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DRAG; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE SEPARATION; SELF ASSEMBLY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTICITY;

BLOCK CO POLYMERS; BLOCK COPOLYMER DYNAMIC; FLUID HYDRODYNAMIC; HYDRODYNAMIC SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; HYDRODYNAMIC TRANSPORT; MULTIPLE FLUID HYDRODYNAMIC; MULTIPLE FLUIDS; PENALISATION; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY; WALL PENALIZATION;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 34248546219     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.10.027     Document Type: Article

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