Simple, Accurate and User-Friendly Differential Constitutive Model for the Rheology of Entangled Polymer Melts and Solutions from Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

In a recent reformulation of the Marrucci-Ianniruberto constitutive equation for the rheology of entangled polymer melts in the context of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, rather large values of the convective constraint release parameter <i>β<sub>ccr</sub></i> had to be used i...

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Main Authors: Pavlos S. Stephanou, Ioanna Ch. Tsimouri, Vlasis G. Mavrantzas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/12/2867