Using spring repulsions to model entanglement interactions in Brownian dynamics simulations of bead-spring chains

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-17

  Holleran, Sean P ^a   Larson, Ronald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bead spring simulation; Brownian dynamics; DNA electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHAIN LENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PECLET NUMBER;

EID: 38049082586     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-007-0189-4     Document Type: Article

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