5 papers
Linking molecular timescales to linear viscoelastic response in dilute and semidilute unentangled wormlike micelle solutions
Avishek Kumar, Rico F Tabor, P. Sunthar +1
Unentangled wormlike micelle solutions relax stress through a dynamic interplay of reversible scission and intrachain relaxation involving a hierarchy of molecular timescales whose…
Linear Viscoelasticity of Semidilute Unentangled Flexible Polymer Solutions
Amit Varakhedkar, P. Sunthar, J. Ravi Prakash
The linear viscoelastic response of flexible polymer solutions in the dilute and semidilute unentangled regimes is investigated using Brownian dynamics simulations. The relaxation…
Linear Viscoelasticity of Semiflexible Polymers with Hydrodynamic Interactions
Amit Varakhedkar, P. Sunthar, J. Ravi Prakash
The linear viscoelastic response of single semiflexible polymer chains in the infinite-dilution limit is studied using Brownian dynamics simulations of coarse-grained bead-spring c…
Subdiffusion of sticky dendrimers in an associative polymer network
Silpa Mariya, Jeremy J. Barr, P. Sunthar +1
We investigate the static and dynamic properties of dendrimers diffusing through a network of linear associative polymers using coarse-grained Brownian dynamics simulations. Both d…
A mesoscopic model for the rheology of dilute and semidilute solutions of wormlike micelles
Avishek Kumar, Rico F. Tabor, P. Sunthar +1
The concept of a `persistent worm' is introduced, representing the smallest possible length of a wormlike micelle, and modelled by a bead-spring chain with sticky beads at the ends…