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The discussion of relaxation and diffusion of macromolecules in very concentrated solutions and melts of polymers showed that the basic equations of macromolecular dynamics reflect the linear behaviour of a macromolecule among the other macromolecules, so that one can proceed further. Considering the non-linear effects of viscoelasticity, one have to take into account the local anisotropy of mobility of every particle of the chains, introduced in the basic dynamic equations of a macromolecule in Chapter 3, and induced anisotropy of the surrounding, which will be introduced in this chapter. In the spirit of mesoscopic theory we assume that the anisotropy is connected with the averaged orientation of segments of macromolecules, so that the equation of dynamics of the macromolecule retains its form. Eventually, the non-linear relaxation equations for two sets of internal variables are formulated. The first set of variables describes the form of the macromolecular coil – the conformational variables, the second one describes the internal stresses connected mainly with the orientation of segments.
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Pokrovskii, V.N. (2010). Equations of Relaxation. In: The Mesoscopic Theory of Polymer Dynamics. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2231-8_7
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