Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-01-24
J. Chem. Phys. 129, 144902 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
22 pages, 11 figures; Web reference added for animations: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~priezjev/roughness/text.htm
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2988496
The slip phenomena in thin polymer films confined by either flat or periodically corrugated surfaces are investigated by molecular dynamics and continuum simulations. For atomically flat surfaces and weak wall-fluid interactions, the shear rate dependence of the slip length has a distinct local minimum which is followed by a rapid increase at higher shear rates. For corrugated surfaces with wavelength larger than the radius of gyration of polymer chains, the effective slip length decays monotonically with increasing corrugation amplitude. At small amplitudes, this decay is reproduced accurately by the numerical solution of the Stokes equation with constant and rate-dependent local slip length. When the corrugation wavelength is comparable to the radius of gyration, the continuum predictions overestimate the effective slip length obtained from molecular dynamics simulations. The analysis of the conformational properties indicates that polymer chains tend to stretch in the direction of shear flow above the crests of the wavy surface.
Niavarani Anoosheh
Priezjev Nikolai V.
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