Modeling the rheology of polymer melts and solutions

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 47-65

  Larson, R G ^a   Desai, Priyanka S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

constitutive theory; dilute solutions; entangled polymers; Extensional flow; shear flow

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; FLUID MECHANICS; POLYMER MELTS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING; VISCOSITY;

CONSTITUTIVE THEORY; DILUTE SOLUTION; ENTANGLED POLYMERS; EXTENSIONAL FLOWS; EXTENSIONAL VISCOSITY; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; ORIENTATION DEPENDENT; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS;

STRAIN RATE;

DILUTION; FRICTION; MELT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMER; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84961290535     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014612     Document Type: Review

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