Application
NEMD usually introduces exceptionally large strain rates
- 108 sec-1 or greater
- dimensionless strain rate
- thus, e.g.,
m = 30g/mol; s = 3A; e/k = 100K; g* = 1.0 ? g = 5?1011 sec-1
Shear-thinning observed even in simple fluids at these rates
Very important to extrapolate to zero shear