Rheology Simulations

Abstract

One can call a simulation as “rheology simulation” if the simulation can deal with the calculation of the mechanical response of materials against flows and deformations. There exist two significant branches for such rheology simulation. In the industry, a widely used direction is the phenomenological approach, where the constitutive equation gives the rheological properties of the material. The other one is the molecular basis to calculate the rheological properties from the dynamics of the molecules. The latter will be mainly explained in this review with attention to some coarse-graining technologies, which are required to trace the molecular motion for a long time.