Rheological equations of state are of great importance for characterization of polymer melts
and for simulation of polymer processing. This concise review considers tube model based …

The following sections are included: Advances in Mathematical Modelling Dynamics of
Dilute Polymer Solutions The Rouse model Dumbbell models Closure Approximations …

Recently we developed a theory for fast flows of entangled polymer melts which includes the
processes of reptation, convective and reptation-driven constraint release, chain stretch and …

The Pom–Pom model, recently introduced by McLeish and Larson [J. Rheol. 42, 81–110
(1998)], is a breakthrough in the field of viscoelastic constitutive equations. With this model …

Blood plasma has been considered a Newtonian fluid for decades. Recent experiments
(Brust et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2013, 110) revealed that blood plasma has a pronounced …

A recent constitutive equation derived from molecular considerations on a model
architecture containing two branch points a “pom-pom” captures the qualitative rheological …

Flows of complex fluids need to be understood at both macroscopic and molecular scales,
because it is the macroscopic response that controls the fluid behavior, but the molecular …

Secondary flow (also termed as stagnation flow, dead space, recirculation zone, and vortex)
is rheological phenomenon occurring during flow of polymer melts through abrupt …

The “pom-pom” model of McLeish and Larson [J. Rheol. 42, 81–110 (1998)] provides a
simple molecular theory for the nonlinear rheology of long chain branched polymer melts. A …

In this paper, a comprehensive description of a finite-volume method for the simulation of
time-dependent viscoelastic flows is given. It is applied to simulate the flow of a particular …