Prabhakar, R.; Sunthar, P.; Ravi Prakash, J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 339 (2004) 1, pp. 34-39
A systematic framework introduced recently to obtain parameter-free predictions of material properties of dilute polymer solutions in extensional flows is reviewed. The essential constraint of ensuring that the model polymer molecule has a finite length is met by using a bead–spring chain...