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On Shear Thinning in Dilute Polymer Solutions

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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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  1. Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehavot, Israel, USA

    Yitzhak Rabin

  2. Institut für Polymere, CH-8092, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland

    H. C. Öttinger

  3. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University 33, 812, Fukuoka, Japan

    K. Kawasaki

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Rabin, Y., Öttinger, H.C. & Kawasaki, K. On Shear Thinning in Dilute Polymer Solutions. MRS Online Proceedings Library 177, 181–185 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-177-181

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