Preface ......................................................... v
Introduction ................................................... ix
PART I. Methodological Aspects .................................. 1
1. Calculation of Hartree-Fock energy derivatives in polymers ... 3
Denis Jacquemin, Eric A. Perpète & Bernard Kirtman
2. Advanced Monte Carlo methods for the atomistic simulation
of polymers with a linear or non-linear molecular
architecture ................................................ 31
Nikos Ch. Karayiannis & Vlasis G. Mavrantzas
3. A method for the systematic estimation of parameters for
a stochastic reptation model ................................ 69
Bernardino Pereira Lo, Andrew J. Haslam, Claire S.
Adjiman & Manuel Laso
4. Implicit micro-macro methods in viscoelastic flow
calculations for polymeric fluids ........................... 85
M. Laso & J. Ramírez
5. Estimation of critical parameters from QM .................. 109
Valérie Wathelet, Marie-Claude André & Michèle
Fontaine
6. Micro-macro 3D calculations of viscoelastic flow ........... 123
Jorge Ramírez & Manuel Laso
7. The derivation of size parameters for the SAFT-VR
equation of state from quantum mechanical calculations ..... 143
T.J. Sheldon, B. Giner, C.S. Adjiman, A. Galindo,
G. Jackson, D. Jacquemin, V. Wathelet & E. A. Perpète
8. Implicit viscoelastic calculations using Brownian
configuration fields ....................................... 161
Jorge Ramírez & Manuel Laso
PART II. Applications ......................................... 181
1. Monomer solubility and diffusion in confined polyethylene
by mapping atomistic trajectories onto the macroscopic
diffusion equation ......................................... 183
M. Laso, N. Jimeno & C. Alemán
2. Detailed atomistic simulation of the barrier properties
of linear and short-branched polyethylene melts through
a hierarchical modeling approach ........................... 201
Patricia Gestoso & Nikos Ch. Karayiannis
3. From polyethylene rheology curves to molecular
weight distributions ....................................... 241
Costas Kiparissides, Prokopis Pladis & Øivind Moen
4. Computer aided polymer design using group contribution
techniques ................................................. 257
Martin Hostrup, Peter. M. Harper, Øivind Moen, Nuria
Muro-Sune, Vipasha Soni, Jens Abildskov & Rafiqul Gani
5. Design of polyolefin reactor mixtures ...................... 301
Andrew J. Haslam, Øivind Moen, Claire S. Adjiman,
Amparo Galindo & George Jacksona
6. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulation of short-chain
branched polyethylene melts ................................ 333
Nikos Ch. Karayiannis, Vlasis G. Mavrantzas, Dimitrios
Mouratides, Elias Chiotellis & Costas Kiparissides
7. Hierarchical approach to flow calculations for polymeric
liquid crystals ............................................ 359
M. Laso, L. M. Muneta, M. Miiller, V. Alcazar, F.
Chinesta & A. Ammar
Subject Index ................................................. 403
Postface ...................................................... 411
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