MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF POLYMERS IN STEADY POTENTIAL FLOWS

This work presents a study of the configurational properties of bead-s pring chains in steady-state potential flows. These properties are obt ained from off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations. The results of our sim ulations compare favourably with theoretical results for phantom chain s. We investigate the effects of excluded volume and hydrodynamic inte raction on the configurations of the chains, and compare our results t o the predictions of scaling arguments. The scaling law observed here for the latter case deviates from theoretical predictions but is in ag reement with findings reported from molecular dynamics simulations.