Thermodynamically guided nonequilibrium Monte Carlo method for generating realistic shear flows in polymeric systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 25, 2007, Pages

  Baig, C ^a   Mavrantzas, V G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SHEAR FLOW;

C50H102 POLYETHYLENE LIQUID; POLYMERIC SYSTEMS; TENSORIAL CONJUGATE FIELD;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 37249043201     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.257801     Document Type: Article

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