An enhanced entangled polymer model for dissipative particle dynamics

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Sirk, Timothy W ^a   Slizoberg, Yelena R ^a   Brennan, John K ^a   Lisal, Martin ^b,c   Andzelm, Jan W ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CHAIN STRUCTURE; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; ENTANGLED POLYMERS; FLEXIBLE CHAINS; MINIMUM DISTANCE; POLYMER MODELS; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; REPULSIVE POTENTIALS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84861696950     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3698476     Document Type: Article

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