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Kinetic models for polymers with inertial effects

Analysis of PDEs 2014-04-08 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

Novel kinetic models for both Dumbbell-like and rigid-rod like polymers are derived, based on the probability distribution function f(t,x,n,n˙)f(t, x, n, \dot n) for a polymer molecule positioned at xx to be oriented along direction nn while embedded in a n˙\dot n environment created by inertial effects. It is shown that the probability distribution function of the extended model, when converging, will lead to well accepted kinetic models when inertial effects are ignored such as the Doi models for rod like polymers, and the Finitely Extensible Non-linear Elastic (FENE) models for Dumbbell like polymers.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1909,
  title  = {Kinetic models for polymers with inertial effects},
  author = {Pierre Degond and Hailiang Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1909},
  year   = {2014}
}

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23 pages, 2 figures

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