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Overview

Brian J. Edwards is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemical engineering, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry, fluid flow and transfer processes, and polymers and plastics. Their work spans multiple interconnected subfields and topics relevant to the understanding of polymer behavior and material properties.

The scientist has contributed extensively to studies involving rheology and fluid dynamics, material dynamics and properties, and polymer crystallization. Other notable areas of focus include block copolymer self-assembly, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, machine learning applications in materials science, and advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. This array of topics highlights an interdisciplinary approach to materials research.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include:

  • Bamin Khomami
  • Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti
  • Mahdi Boudaghi
  • Elyar Tourani
  • Antony N. Beris

Brian J. Edwards has published in a range of scientific journals, with recurrent venues being:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Polymers
  • Macromolecules
  • Soft Matter
  • Journal of Rheology

Their recent papers illustrate their focus on polymer science and rheology. Selected publications include:

  • "Flow-Induced Phase Separation and Crystallization in Entangled Polyethylene Solutions under Elongational Flow," 2020, Macromolecules
  • "Effects of chain length and polydispersity on shear banding in simple shear flow of polymeric melts," 2020, Soft Matter
  • "Atomistic simulation of shear flow of linear alkane and polyethylene liquids: A 50-year retrospective," 2022, Journal of Rheology
  • "Flow-induced crystallization of a polyethylene liquid above the melting temperature and its nonequilibrium phase diagram," 2020, Physical Review Research
  • "High-fidelity scaling relationships for determining dissipative particle dynamics parameters from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric liquids," 2020, Scientific Reports

The combination of these publications reflects an ongoing engagement with advanced computational and experimental techniques to understand polymeric materials under various flow conditions. The work addresses critical aspects of polymer crystallization, phase behavior, and rheological response, contributing data and insights relevant to both theoretical and applied materials science.

Best Publications

  • Thermodynamics of flowing systems : with internal microstructure

    Antony N. Beris;Brian J. Edwards

  • Orientation softening in the deformation and wear of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene

    A. Wang;D.C. Sun;S.-S. Yau;B. Edwards

  • A molecular dynamics study of a nafion polyelectrolyte membrane and the aqueous phase structure for proton transport.

    Shengting Cui;Junwu Liu;Myvizhi Esai Selvan;David J. Keffer

  • Cobalt, chromium, and nickel concentrations in body fluids of patients with porous‐coated knee or hip prostheses

    Sunderman Fw;Hopfer Sm;Swift T;Rezuke Wn

  • Comparison of the Hydration and Diffusion of Protons in Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes with Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Shengting Cui;Junwu Liu;Myvizhi Esai Selvan;Stephen J. Paddison

  • Macroscopic thermodynamics of flowing polymeric liquids

    Marco Dressler;Brian J. Edwards;Hans Christian Öttinger

  • Individual chain dynamics of a polyethylene melt undergoing steady shear flow

    M. H. Nafar Sefiddashti;B. J. Edwards;B. Khomami

  • Power and sample size calculations in the presence of phenotype errors for case/control genetic association studies.

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  • A Proper Approach for Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Planar Elongational Flow

    Chunggi Baig;BJ Edwards;DJ Keffer;HD Cochran

  • Poisson bracket formulation of viscoelastic flow equations of differential type: A unified approach

    Anthony N. Beris;Brian J. Edwards

  • Poisson bracket formulation of incompressible flow equations in continuum mechanics

    A. N. Beris;B. J. Edwards

  • Generalized constitutive equation for polymeric liquid crystals Part 1. Model formulation using the Hamiltonian (poisson bracket) formulation

    Brian J. Edwards;Antony N. Beris;Miroslav Grmela

  • Rheological and structural studies of liquid decane, hexadecane, and tetracosane under planar elongational flow using nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations

    Chunggi Baig;BJ Edwards;DJ Keffer;HD Cochran

  • A numerical study of the measurement of elongational viscosity of polymeric fluids in a semihyperbolically converging die

    K. Feigl;F.X. Tanner;B.J. Edwards;J.R. Collier

  • Rheological and entanglement characteristics of linear-chain polyethylene liquids in planar Couette and planar elongational flows

    Jun M. Kim;David J. Keffer;Martin Kröger;Brian J. Edwards

  • Rheological models with microstructural constraints

    B. J. Edwards;M. Dressler;M. Grmela;A. Ait-Kadi

  • Non-canonical Poisson bracket for nonlinear elasticity with extensions to viscoelasticity

    B J Edwards;A N Beris

  • An Analysis of Single and Double Generator Thermodynamic Formalisms for the Macroscopic Description of Complex Fluids

    Brian J. Edwards

  • Time-structure invariance criteria for closure approximations

    Brian J. Edwards;Hans Christian Öttinger

  • Generalized Doi–Ohta model for multiphase flow developed via generic

    Norman J. Wagner;Hans Christian Öttinger;Brian J. Edwards

  • On the admissibility criteria for linear viscoelasticity kernels

    A. N. Beris;B. J. Edwards

  • The Dynamical Behavior of Liquid Crystals: A Continuum Description through Generalized Brackets

    Brian J. Edwards;Antony N. Beris;Miroslav Grmela

Frequent Co-Authors

Bamin Khomami
Bamin Khomami University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Antony N. Beris
Antony N. Beris University of Delaware
Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta University of Pennsylvania
Stephen J. Paddison
Stephen J. Paddison University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Miroslav Grmela
Miroslav Grmela Polytechnique Montréal
Vlasis G. Mavrantzas
Vlasis G. Mavrantzas University of Patras
Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù City University of New York
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Hengbo Yin
Hengbo Yin Jiangsu University

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