COIL STRETCH TRANSITIONS IN MIXED SHEAR AND EXTENSIONAL FLOWS OF DILUTE POLYMER-SOLUTIONS
COIL STRETCH TRANSITIONS IN MIXED SHEAR AND EXTENSIONAL FLOWS OF DILUTE POLYMER-SOLUTIONS
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DOI:
10.1021/ma00197a022
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发表时间:
1989-07-01
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
MAGDA, JJ
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作者:
LARSON, RG;MAGDA, JJ
A generalization of Zimm’s bead-spring model for dilute solutions of flexible polymers that accounts for the influence of coil distortion on hydrodynamic interactions is used to calculate molecular distortions and coil-stretch transitions in general planar flows. Expressing an arbitrary incompressible planar flow as a superposition of a shearing flow and a planar extension, we find that the shearing flow can reduce the critical extension rate cc required to produce a coil-stretch transition, whereas theoriginal Zimm theory predicts no influence of shearing on ec. The scaling theory of de Gennes predicts a much larger influence of shearing on jc than is obtained in the bead-spring calculations, apparently because the cylindrical shape assumed by de Gennes does notaccurately describe the true pretransition coil shape. The weaker dependence of cc on shearing foundin our calculations is consistent with recent experimental data of Dunlap and Leal.