Superensembles of linear viscoelastic models of polymer melts

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 279-303

  Shanbhag, Sachin ^a   Joon Park, Seung ^b   Wang, Zuowei ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Polytechnic University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Linear rheology; Nonlinear regression; Polymer melts; Tube model

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL MODELS; LINEAR RHEOLOGY; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; MULTIPLE MODELS; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; TEST DATA; TRAINING DATA; TUBE MODEL;

ELASTICITY; POLYMER MELTS; RHEOLOGY;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84858977259     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3679469     Document Type: Article

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