3 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
Improving the functionality of non-stretching approximations
Vickie Chen, Brandon Wang, Joseph D. Peterson
Entangled polymers are an important class of materials for their toughness, processability, and functionalizability. However, physically detailed modeling of highly entangled polym…
cond-mat.soft2024
Pathological Rheology of Non-Stretching Entangled Polymers: Finite-Time Blow-Up Predictions
Vickie Chen, Brandon Wang, Joseph D. Peterson
The non-stretching approximation of polymer rheology simplifies a constitutive equation but fundamentally changes its behavior in fast flows, and the circumstances under which fast…
cond-mat.soft2024
Analytic Solution for the Linear Rheology of Living Polymers
Vickie Chen, Charles T. Drucker, Claire Love +2
It is often said that well-entangled and fast-breaking living polymers (such as wormlike micelles) exhibit a single relaxation time in their reptation dynamics, but the full story…