A pragmatic approach for deriving constitutive equations endowed with pom-pom attributes

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1187-1196

  Clemeur, Nicolas ^a,c   Debbaut, Benoit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Fluent Benelux   (Belgium)

^c Daesim Technologies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differential constitutive equations; Modelling; Pom pom model; Rheology; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RHEOLOGY; RHEOMETERS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 37249071868     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-007-0203-x     Document Type: Article

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