Multiscale Modeling and Coarse Graining of Polymer Dynamics: Simulations Guided by Statistical Beyond-Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Modeling and Simulation in Polymers

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 343-383

  Ilg, Patrick ^a   Mavrantzas, Vlasis ^b   Öttinger, Hans Christian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Constitutive equation; Lagrange multipliers; Molecular dynamics simulations; Shear flow; Solvent dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872322607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527630257.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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