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On Shear Thinning in Dilute Polymer Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Yitzhak Rabin,
H. C. Öttinger and
K. Kawasaki
Yitzhak Rabin
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehavot 76100, Israel
H. C. Öttinger
Affiliation:
Institut für Polymere, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
K. Kawasaki
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University 33, Fukuoka 812, Japan
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Abstract

While recent remrmalization group studies predict shear thickening in the limit of large Weissenberg numbers, scaling theories predict shear thinning. The ocntroversy is related to the question whether the Weissenberg number or the shear rate should be kept fixed when taking the limit of infinitely long polymers.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 177: Symposium V – Macromolecular Liquids , 1989, 181
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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