On the coarse-graining of polymers into bead-spring chains

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 122, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 3-31

  Underhill, Patrick T ^a   Doyle, Patrick S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Bead spring models; Coarse graining; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY;

COARSE-GRAINING; POLYMER ENSEMBLE TRANSFORMATION (PET); RANDOM WALK SPRING (RWS);

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 7744220271     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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