Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Mass Transport in Polymeric Mixtures with Complex Interfaces

EasyChair Preprint no. 2437

Abstract

In this contribution, we model, at the mesoscopic level of description, the non-standard mass transport of a solvent in a mixture of two immiscible polymers. We formulate a model that explicitly integrates the coupling between diffusion and the deformation of the interface and the macromolecular chains as well. For this purpose, in addition to the solvent mass fraction c, we use two symmetrical tensors of order two: the interface tensor N and the conformation tensor m. We predict profiles of these state variables in addition to those of the stress tensor created by diffusion.

Keyphrases: Conformation, interface, mass transport, Sorption.

@Booklet{EasyChair:2437,
  author = {El Habty El Mahdy and Ali El Afif and Muncif Sidki},
  title = {Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Mass Transport in Polymeric Mixtures with Complex Interfaces},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 2437},

  year = {EasyChair, 2020}}