The idea that the dynamics of concentrated, high–molecular weight polymers are largely
governed by entanglements is now widely accepted and typically understood through the …

Nonlinear extensional flows are common in polymer processing, but they remain
challenging theoretically because dramatic stretching of chains deforms the entanglement …

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study relaxation of entangled polymer melts
deformed far from equilibrium by uniaxial extensional flow. Melts are elongated to a Hencky …

The molecular mechanism known as convective constraint release (CCR) is here revisited to
account for the fact that in fast flows topological entanglements decrease in number, as …

A theoretically informed entangled polymer simulation approach is presented for description
of the linear and non-linear rheology of entangled polymer melts. The approach relies on a …

It is now established that the huge qualitative difference in flow behavior between entangled
polymer melts and solutions in nonlinear elongational flows cannot be explained in the …

The discrete slip-link theory is a hierarchy of strongly connected models that have great
success predicting the linear and nonlinear rheology of high-molecular-weight polymers …

We present a method to map the full equilibrium distribution of the primitive-path (PP) length,
obtained from multi-chain simulations of polymer melts, onto a single-chain mean …

We compare predictions of two of the most advanced versions of the tube model, namely the
“Hierarchical model” by Wang et al.[J. Rheol. 2010, 54, 223] and the BoB (branch-on …

An ABA triblock copolymer in a midblock selective solvent is studied as a function of the
chain length, using a novel dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) model which includes a …