Zachary Wolfgram

Multiscale modeling of the electroviscoelasticity of charged polymers in combined flow and electric fields

The behavior of polymers in combined flow and electric fields underlies many manufacturing processes but remains poorly understood. We model charged polymers across scales, extending the Rouse model for a bead-spring chain to include a charge density distributed along the polymer...

A generalization of director tensors for odd matter in classical continuum mechanics

Abstract A general tensorial framework for odd and hyperelastic contributions in linear elasticity is developed within classical continuum mechanics. The formulation is based on complementary decompositions of the second-order identity tensor and an off-diagonal selector tensor,...