Using concepts developed over the years by de Gennes, Doi, Edwards, Marrucci, Rubinstein, McLeish, Milner, and others, a kind of 'standard model' for entangled polymer relaxation and rheology has been developed, which, like the 'standard model' of high-energy physics, has a number of ad hoc assumptions and fitting parameters. The "standard model...
Creator:
Larson, Ronald G. (University of Michigan)
Created:
2009-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.