Entanglements in quiescent and sheared polymer melts

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Yamamoto, Ryoichi ^a   Onuki, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; STRESS RELAXATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL NOISE; VISUALIZATION;

BEADS; ENTANGLEMENTS; INTERACTION ENERGY; POLYMER MELTS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 41349091277     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.041801     Document Type: Article

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