Fourier-transform rheology under medium amplitude oscillatory shear for linear and branched polymer melts

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1319-1342

  Hyun, Kyu ^a,b   Baik, En Su ^c   Ahn, Kyung Hyun ^c   Lee, Seung Jong ^c   Sugimoto, Masataka ^d   Koyama, Kiyohito ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Branched polymer; E PTT model; FT rheology; Giesekus model; Medium amplitude oscillatory shear (MAOS); Pom pom model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; STRAIN RATE;

BRANCHED POLYMERS; FOURIER-TRANSFORM RHEOLOGY; GIESEKUS MODELS; MEDIUM AMPLITUDE OSCILLATORY SHEAR (MAOS); POM-POM MODELS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 36749026308     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.2790072     Document Type: Article

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