Viscosity elastic dumbbell model

Equation (6.70) indicates that the viscosity is independent of the shear rate Aq. However, it is well known that the polymeric liquid exhibits non-Newtonian behavior, namely, that the viscosity value decreases with increasing shear rate after the rate reaches a certain value. This discrepancy is a weak point of the elastic dumbbell model and arises from an inherent weakness in the Gaussian distribution assumed for the connector vector. We can see the cause of this deficiency from the following analysis of how the dumbbell configuration changes with shear rate. 

Coppola et al. [142] calculated the dimensionless induction time, defined as the ratio of the quiescent nucleation rate over the total nucleation rate, as a function of the strain rate in continuous shear flow. They used AG according to different rheological models the Doi-Edwards model with the independent alignment assumption, DE-IAA [143], the linear elastic dumbbell model [154], and the finitely extensible nonlinear elastic dumbbell model with Peterlin s closure approximation, FENE-P [155]. The Doi-Edwards results showed the best agreement with experimental dimensionless induction times, defined as the time at which the viscosity suddenly starts to increase rapidly, normalized by the time at which this happens in quiescent crystallization [156-158]. 

The notation used for the elastic dumbbell model is shown in Figure 9. There are n dumbbells per unit volume, dissolved in a solvent with viscosity rj. The imposed velocity distribution for the solution is given by v = Vq + [k i ], in which Vq is independent of position, k = (Vv) is a position-independent traceless tensor, and r is the position vector such a velocity distribution is referred to as homogeneous since the velocity gradients are constant throughout the fluid. 

Internal viscosity (Section 4) provides another possible source of shear-rate dependence. For sufficiently rapid disturbances, a spring-bead model with internal viscosity acts like a rigid body for sufficiently slow disturbances it is flexible and indefinitely extensible. The analytical difficulties for coupled, non-linear spring-bead systems are equally severe in linear spring-bead systems with internal viscosity. Even the elastic dumbbell with internal viscosity has only been solved exactly in the limit of small e (559), where e is the ratio of internal friction coefficient to molecular (external) friction coefficient Co n. For this case, the viscosity decreases with shear rate. 

In the simplest case, at N = 1, the considered subchain model of a macromolecule reduces to the dumbbell model consisting of two Brownian particles connected with an elastic force. It can be called relaxator as well. The re-laxator is the simplest model of a macromolecule. Moreover, the dynamics of a macromolecule in normal co-ordinates is equivalent to the dynamics of a set of independent relaxators with various coefficients of elasticity and internal viscosity. In this way, one can consider a dilute solution of polymer as a suspension of independent relaxators which can be considered here to be identical for simplicity. The latter model is especially convenient for the qualitative analysis of the effects in polymer solutions under motion. 

For polymeric fiuids, early Idnetic-theory workers (40) attempted to calculate the zero-shear-rate viscosity of dilute solutions by modeling the polymer molecules as elastic dumbbells. Later the constants in the Rivlin-Ericksen (17) expansion were obtained for dumbbells (41, 42) and other more complex models and only recently have the kernel functions in the memory integral expansions been obtained (43), This rapidly expanding field has been summarized recently in a monograph (44) here, too, molecular dynamics simulation may prove fhiitful (45),... 

This process has been examined theoretically by a number of authors (29-31), who derived constitutive equations based upon finitely extendable nonlinear elastic (FENE) dumbbell models (29), bead-rod models (30), and bead-spring models (31). There is general agreement that a large increase in elongational viscosity should be expected. 

The complex viscosity components are considerably more realistic for this model than for the elastic dumbbell. The elongational viscosity, however, goes to infinity at some finite elongation rate. 

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