Spinodal decomposition of polymer solutions: A parallelized molecular dynamics simulation

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

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Yelash, Leonid ^a   Virnau, Peter ^a   Paul, Wolfgang ^a   Binder, Kurt ^a   Müller, Marcus ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; DYNAMICS; ISOMERS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; PARAFFINS; PHASE MODULATION; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEPARATION; SIZE SEPARATION; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

BINARY FLUID MIXTURES; COARSE-GRAINED MODELING; COARSE-GRAINED PARTICLES; DOMAIN SIZES; DYNAMIC ASYMMETRY; EQUILIBRIUM PHASE BEHAVIOR; EQUILIBRIUM STATES; HEXADECANE; LARGE SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MACROSCOPICALLY; MESOSCOPIC; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PHASE SEPARATION KINETICS; POLYMER COILING; PREDICTED GROWTH; PRESSURE JUMPS; SEGREGATION PROCESS; SPINODAL; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE; TIME SCALING; TWO ORDER PARAMETERS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 51849158676     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.031801     Document Type: Article

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