Flow-induced correlation effects within a linear chain in a polymer melt

Stepanyan, R. and Slot, J.J.M. and Molenaar, J. and Tchesnokov, M.A. (2005) Flow-induced correlation effects within a linear chain in a polymer melt. Physical Review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 72 (5). 051807-051818. ISSN 1539-3755

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Abstract:	A framework for a consistent description of the flow-induced correlation effects within a linear polymer chain in a melt is proposed. The formalism shows how correlations between chain segments in the flow can be incorporated into a hierarchy of distribution functions for tangent vectors. The present model allows one to take into account all the major relaxation mechanisms. Special cases of the derived set of equations are shown to yield existing models and shed some light on the connection between them. Consequences of several assumptions widely used in the literature are analyzed within the developed framework.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2005 The American Physical Society
Research Group:	Computational Biophysics (CBP) Applied Analysis and Mathematical Physics (AAMP)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/56877
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.72.051807
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