TY - BOOK ID - 5450651 TI - Models for Polymeric and Anisotropic Liquids PY - 2005 SN - 9783540262107 3540262105 3540315195 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Polymer solutions KW - Crystalline polymers KW - Mathematical models. KW - Organic Chemistry KW - Atomic Physics KW - Physics KW - Chemistry KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Mathematical models KW - Crystal polymers KW - Crystallographically ordered polymers KW - Polymer crystals KW - Liquid polymers KW - Polymeric liquids KW - Physics. KW - Polymers. KW - Continuum physics. KW - Amorphous substances. KW - Complex fluids. KW - Continuum mechanics. KW - Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics. KW - Polymer Sciences. KW - Classical Continuum Physics. KW - Numerical and Computational Physics. KW - Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. KW - Mechanics of continua KW - Elasticity KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Complex liquids KW - Fluids, Complex KW - Amorphous substances KW - Liquids KW - Soft condensed matter KW - Classical field theory KW - Continuum physics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Polymere KW - Polymeride KW - Polymers and polymerization KW - Macromolecules KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Physical sciences KW - Dynamics KW - Mechanics. KW - Mechanics, Applied. KW - Classical and Continuum Physics. KW - Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. KW - Solid Mechanics. KW - Applied mechanics KW - Engineering, Mechanical KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Classical mechanics KW - Newtonian mechanics KW - Quantum theory KW - Polymers  . UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5450651 AB - Models should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. For the physics of polymeric liquids, whose relevant lengths and time scales are out of reach for first principles calculations, this means that we have to choose a minimum set of sufficiently detailed descriptors such as architecture (linear, ring, branched), connectivity, semiflexibility, stretchability, excluded volume, and hydrodynamic interaction. These 'universal' fluids allow the prediction of material properties under external flow- or electrodynamic fields, the results being expressed in terms of reference units, specific for any particular chosen material. This book provides an introduction to the kinetic theory and computer simulation methods needed to handle these models and to interpret the results. Also included are a number of sample applications and computer codes. ER -