Critical slowing down in polymer dynamics near the coil-stretch transition in elongation flow

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

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Gerashchenko, Sergiy ^a   Steinberg, Victor ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMERS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STRAIN RATE; TURPENTINE;

CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; CRITICAL SLOWING DOWNS; ELONGATION FLOWS; KUHN SEGMENTS; POLYMER DYNAMICS; POLYMER MOLECULES; POLYMER RELAXATIONS; PRECISE; RELAXATION DYNAMICS; STEADY STATES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 54549105529     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.040801     Document Type: Article

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