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Diffusion in glassy polymers - From random walks to partial differential equations

  • Zbigniew J. Grzywna
  • , Jacek K. Stolarczyk
  • Silesian University of Technology
  • University College Dublin

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Abstract

ID diffusion in glassy polymers with no stresses considered explicitly is studied. A class of different uncorrelated and correlated random walks (RW), described by suitable master equations, is presented. The limiting processes which lead to the set of partial differential equations (PDEs) of parabolic and hyperbolic types generating the "travelling waves" solutions are discussed. Finally, some numerical solutions addressed to diffusion in glassy polymers are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1595-1611
Number of pages17
JournalActa Physica Polonica B
Volume36
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - May 2005
EventXVII Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics - Zakopane, Poland
Duration: 4 Sept 20049 Sept 2004

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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