Existence and equilibration of global weak solutions to kinetic models for dilute polymers I: Finitely extensible nonlinear bead-spring chains

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1211-1289

  Barrett, John W ^a   Süli, Endre ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FENE chain; Kinetic polymer models; Navier Stokes Fokker Planck system

Indexed keywords

BODY FORCES; BOUNDED DOMAIN; CENTRE OF MASS; CHAIN MODELS; DILUTE POLYMERS; DILUTE SOLUTION; DIVERGENCE FREE; FENE CHAIN; FISHER INFORMATION; GENERAL CLASS; GLOBAL WEAK SOLUTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL VELOCITIES; KINETIC MODELS; KRAMERS EXPRESSION; MOMENTUM EQUATION; NAVIER STOKES; NAVIER-STOKES-FOKKER-PLANCK SYSTEM; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMERIC LIQUIDS; REGULARISATION; RELATIVE ENTROPY; RIGHT-HAND SIDES; STRUCTURAL ASSUMPTION; TIME INTERVAL; WEAK SOLUTION;

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DRAG; ENTROPY; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TENSORS; TIMING JITTER; VISCOUS FLOW;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 79960351791     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202511005313     Document Type: Article

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