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A 2D model for tube orientation and tube squeezing in fast flows of polymer meltsJournal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics In 40th International Symposium on Macromolecules, Vol. 128, No. 1. (01 June 2005), pp. 42-49.
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AbstractMotivated by recent data of Hassager and coworkers [A. Bach, K. Almdal, H.K. Rasmussen, O. Hassager, Elongational viscosity of narrow molar mass distribution polystyrene, Macromolecules, 36 (2003) 5174–5179], we develop a new tube model describing the non-linear behaviour of entangled monodisperse linear polymers. Within the context of well established tube theories, the model accounts for the effect of flow on tube diameter, thus somehow picking up a long standing suggestion by Wagner and Schaeffer [M.H. Wagner, J. Schaeffer, Non-linear strain measures for general biaxial extension of polymer melts, J. Rheol., 32 (1992) 1–26] among others. Since tubes with a deformation dependent cross section are rather difficult to deal with, we here limit model development to an artificial two-dimensional situation. The simple 2D model has the advantage of illustrating the new physical assumptions more transparently, and it already proves to correctly predict most qualitative features typically shown by shear and elongational data in the non-linear range.
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