7 EQUATION OF STATE AND STRESS
TENSOR IN INHOMOGENEOUS
COMPRESSIBLE COPOLYMER MELTS
This chapter was previously published as:
'Equation of state and stress tensor in inhomogeneous compressible
copolymer melts. Dynamic mean- eld density functional approach'.
N.M. Maurits, A.V. Zvelindovsky, J.G.E.M. Fraaije,
Journal of Chemical Physics,
108 6, 1998, p. 2638-2650.
7.1 Summary
We have derived an expression for the global stress in inhomogeneous
complex cop olymer liquids. We apply the principle of virtual work to
the free energy as de ned in the dynamic mean- eld density functional
metho d. This metho d automatically provides the full stress tensor devi-
atoric and isotropic parts and hence an equation of state for inhomoge-
neous compressible cop olymer melts. The excluded volume interactions
and cohesive interactions b etween chains have b een explicitly taken into
account. Therefore the expressions for the stress and thermo dynamic
pressure have a wide range of validity. The connectivity of the chains
is automatically accounted for and the free energy adapts very well to
changes in the molecule prop erties. In the limiting case of homogeneous
systems it simpli es to known results. In order to study rheological prop-
erties of cop olymer melts and npT -ensemble simulations, the pressure and
stress comp onents have to be calculated at any given moment in time.
Weshowhow the pressure and stress can b e numerically evaluated during
simulations using a Green propagator algorithm, instead of having to cal-
culate the time-dep endent con guration distribution function explicitly
from a Smoluchowski equation. We provide illustrativenumerical results
that indicate how the pressure changes during microphase separation.
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7.2 Intro duction
General
The dynamic mean- eld density functional metho d is a metho d for nu-
merically calculating the phase separation dynamics of cop olymer liquids
in 3D. It predicts morphologies and has recently been successfully used
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to predict part of a Pluronic/water phase diagram. The metho d is
based up on a generalized time-dep endent Ginzburg-Landau theory for
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conserved order parameter of the following general form:
Z
Z
X
@ r
I
D r; r r dr =
IJ 1 J 1 1
@t
V
J =1
Z
Z
X
D r; r
IJ 1