In 1975 Doi and Edwards predicted that entangled polymer melts andsolutions can have a constitutive instability, signified by adecreasing stress for shear rates greater than the inverse of thereptation time. Early experiments did not support this, and moresophisticated theories were developed that incorporated Marrucci's idea (1996) ofremoving c...
Creator:
Olmsted, Peter D.
Created:
2009-09-14
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.