Modelling Polymers as Compressible Elastic Spheres in Couette Flow
A model of polymer chains as compressible elastic spheres in flow is presented. The spherical polymer blobs are assumed to compress in simple Couette flow in accord with recent rheo-optic measurements on semi-dilute solutions. The experimentally determined decrease in radius with increasing shear ra...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Substantia |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/10 |