Slip-link simulations of entangled polymers in planar extensional flow: Disentanglement modified extensional thinning

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 463-483

  Kushwaha, Amit ^a   Shaqfeh, Eric S G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Disentanglement; Entangled; Planar extensional; Polymers; Slip link; Thinning

Indexed keywords

DISENTANGLEMENT; ENTANGLED; PLANAR EXTENSIONAL; SLIP-LINK; THINNING;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79955394439     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3549296     Document Type: Article

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