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- Editors:
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Tuan Quoc Nguyen
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Polymer Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology MX-D, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Hans-Henning Kausch
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Polymer Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology MX-D, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XVII
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- Jean-Paul Ryckaert, Carlo Pierleoni
Pages 5-40
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- F. Brochard-Wyart, A. Buguin
Pages 41-65
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- Yitzhak Rabin, Shlomo Alexander
Pages 67-72
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- O. V. Borisov, A. A. Darinskii
Pages 73-99
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- Manuel Laso, Marco Picasso, Hans Christian Öttinger
Pages 101-136
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- J. A. Odell, S. P. Carrington
Pages 137-184
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- Tuan Q. Nguyen, Réza Porouchani, Henning-H. Kausch
Pages 185-258
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- R. G. Larson, T. T. Perkins, D. E. Smith, S. Chu
Pages 259-282
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- T. T. Perkins, D. E. Smith, S. Chu
Pages 283-334
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Back Matter
Pages 395-401
About this book
The behavior of polymer solutions in simple shear flows has been the subject of considerable research in the past. On the other hand, reports on polymers in elongational flow have appeared comparatively recently in the literature. Elongational flow with an inherent low vorticity is known to be more effective in extending polymer chains than simple shear flow and thus is more interesting from the point of view of basic (molecular chain dynamics at high deformation) and applied polymer science (rheology, fiber extrusion, drag reduction, flow through porous media). Undoubtly, one landmark in the field of polymer dynamics in elongational flow was the notion of critical strain-rate for chain extension, initially put forward by A. Peterlin (1966) and later refined into the "coil-stretching" transition by P. G. de Gennes and H. Hinch (1974). In the two decades which followed, significant progress in the understanding of chain conformation in "strong" flow has been accomplished through a combination of advances in instrumentation, computation techniques and theoretical studies. As a result of the multidisciplinary nature of the field, information on polymer chains in "strong" flow is accessible only from reviews and research papers scattered in disparate scientific journals. An important objective of this book is to remedy that situation by providing the reader with up-to-date knowledge in a single volume. The editors therefore invited leading specialists to provide both fundamental and applied information on the multiple facets of chain deformation in elongational flow.
