A kinetic theory of polymeric fluids

C.F. Curtiss and R.Byron Bird

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1983, vol. 118, issue 1, 191-204

Abstract: Molecular theories of polymeric fluids, both solutions and melts, have now been developed to a stage in which a broad class of nonlinear rheological phenomena may be described qualitatively and, in some cases, quantitatively. The theories contain several parameters, such as friction coefficients, chain length, and spring constants, that are determined by fitting data on rheological properties. This paper summarizes the development of these polymer kinetic theories, and particular attention is paid to the derivation of a rather general molecular theory expression for the stress tensor. The earlier dilute solution results of Kramers, Riseman and Kirkwood, and Rouse, as well as the results of the reptation theory of Doi and Edwards for melts fit into this general development.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(83)90187-5

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