| The flow alignment of polymer chains in a melt is calculated from a Fokker-Planck equation. For the case of a stationary plane Couette geometry the result is parametrized by the tensor components for the alignment of chain ends. It is expressed in terms of the orientational and one-dimensional reptational diffusion constants, the chain length, the shape of the segment and the shear rate. |
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