Verification of branch point withdrawal in elongational flow of pom-pom polystyrene melt

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1049-1068

  Wagner, Manfred H ^a   Rolón Garrido, Víctor H ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic dilution; FENE; MSF model; Pom pom molecule; Strain dependent tube diameter; Stretch relaxation

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MOLECULES; POLYMER BLENDS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TOPOLOGY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

AND MODELING; BRANCH POINTS; CHAIN STRETCHING; DEFORMATION RATES; DYNAMIC DILUTION; ELONGATIONAL FLOWS; EVOLUTION EQUATIONS; FENE; FINITE EXTENSIBILITY; MOLECULAR STRESS FUNCTION; MONODISPERSE POLYSTYRENE; MSF MODEL; MULTIPLE TIME SCALES; NIELSEN; POM-POM MODELS; POM-POM MOLECULE; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SIDE CHAINS; STRAIN MEASURING; STRAIN-DEPENDENT; STRAIN-DEPENDENT TUBE DIAMETER; STRETCH RELAXATION; TUBE DIAMETERS; TUBE MODEL;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 50049106046     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.2957699     Document Type: Article

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