Non-maximum entropy polymer elasticity, viscoelasticity and the lattice Boltzmann method

• Main Author: Benjamin, Ryan Lester
• Other Authors: Reddy, B Daya
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Human Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10126

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-303). === Various models of viscoelasticity exist based on continuum mechanics. In this work a statistical mechanical approach is taken to derive a new isotropic, hyperelastic, viscoelastic, incompressible constitutive equation for polymers. The result has been achieved by generating a novel physics for the microscopic behaviour of polymers. A vocabulary has been created to facilitate the physics. A new differential equation describing polymer behaviour is derived based on the mathematical description of the physics.