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Ole Hassager is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, materials science, and chemical engineering, with particular attention to fluid flow and transfer processes, polymers and plastics, and biomedical engineering among other subfields.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Rheology and fluid dynamics studies
  • Polymer crystallization and properties
  • Material dynamics and properties
  • Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials
  • Innovations in concrete and construction materials
  • Polymer composites and self-healing

Ole Hassager has contributed to publications in several well-known scientific venues. These include:

  • Macromolecules
  • Journal of Rheology
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physics of Fluids

Frequent collaborators with whom they have coauthored multiple studies are:

  • Qian Huang
  • Anine L. Borger
  • Kell Mortensen
  • Anne Ladegaard Skov
  • Ricardo J. E. Andrade

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Ole Hassager include:

  • Stress-controlled oscillatory flow initiated at time zero: A linear viscoelastic analysis, 2020, Journal of Rheology
  • Extensional rheometry of model liquids: Simulations of filament stretching, 2021, Physics of Fluids
  • Threading-Unthreading Transition of Linear-Ring Polymer Blends in Extensional Flow, 2020, ACS Macro Letters
  • Toward a Design for Flowable and Extensible Ionomers: An Example of Diamine-Neutralized Entangled Poly(styrene-co-4-vinylbenzoic acid) Ionomer Melts, 2021, Macromolecules
  • Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of the Structural Relaxation of Elongationally Oriented, Moderately Stretched Three-Arm Star Polymers, 2021, Physical Review Letters

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of polymeric liquids: Fluid mechanics

    RB Bird;RC Armstrong;Ole Hassager

  • Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Volume 1: Fluid Mechanics

    Ole Hassager;R. Byron Bird

  • Dynamics of polymeric liquids: Kinetic theory

    RH Bird;CF Curtiss;RC Armstrong;Ole Hassager

  • Elongational viscosity of narrow molar mass distribution polystyrene

    Anders Bach;Kristoffer Almdal;Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen;Ole Hassager

  • Negative wake behind bubbles in non-newtonian liquids

    Ole Hassager

  • Highly Stretchable and Conductive Polymer Material Made from Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and Polyurethane Elastomers

    Thomas Steen Hansen;Keld West;Ole Hassager;Niels Bent Larsen

  • Extensional viscosity for polymer melts measured in the filament stretching rheometer

    Anders Bach;Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen;Ole Hassager

  • Shear and Extensional Rheology of Polystyrene Melts and Solutions with the Same Number of Entanglements

    Salvatore Costanzo;Qian Huang;Giovanni Ianniruberto;Giuseppe Marrucci

  • Concentrated Polymer Solutions are Different from Melts: Role of Entanglement Molecular Weight

    Qian Huang;Olga Mednova;Henrik K. Rasmussen;Nicolas Javier Alvarez

  • Analytical solutions for squeeze flow with partial wall slip

    HM Laun;M Rady;Ole Hassager

  • An algorithm for the use of the Lagrangian specification in Newtonian fluid mechanics and applications to free-surface flow

    Poul Bach;Ole Hassager

  • Elongational viscosity of monodisperse and bidisperse polystyrene melts

    Jens Kromann Nielsen;Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen;Ole Hassager;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Kinetic theory and rheology of bead‐rod models for macromolecular solutions. I. Equilibrium and steady flow properties

    Ole Hassager

  • Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on Linear and Nonlinear Rheology of Entangled Polymer Melts

    Aamir Shabbir;Hadi Goldansaz;Ole Hassager;Evelyne van Ruymbeke

  • The Considère condition and rapid stretching of linear and branched polymer melts

    Gareth H. McKinley;Ole Hassager

  • Quantitative prediction of transient and steady-state elongational viscosity of nearly monodisperse polystyrene melts

    Manfred H. Wagner;Saeid Kheirandish;Ole Hassager

  • Transient filament stretching rheometer II: Numerical simulation

    Mette Irene Kolte;Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen;Ole Hassager

  • Viscosity overshoot in the start-up of uniaxial elongation of low density polyethylene melts

    Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen;Jens Kromann Nielsen;Anders Bach;Ole Hassager

  • Extensional Rheology of Entangled Polystyrene Solutions Suggests Importance of Nematic Interactions

    Qian Huang;Nicolas Javier Alvarez;Yumi Matsumiya;Henrik K. Rasmussen

  • Elastic Properties of Nonstoichiometric Reacted PDMS Networks

    A. L. Larsen;K. Hansen;P. Sommer-Larsen;O. Hassager

  • Dynamics of polymeric liquids, Volume 1: Fluid mechanics, 2nd Edition

    R. Byron Bird;Robert C. Armstrong;Ole Hassager

Frequent Co-Authors

Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen
Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen University College Absalon
Kristoffer Almdal
Kristoffer Almdal Technical University of Denmark
Kell Mortensen
Kell Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Günther H.J. Peters
Günther H.J. Peters Technical University of Denmark
R. Byron Bird
R. Byron Bird University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert C. Armstrong
Robert C. Armstrong Sandia National Laboratories
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Dimitris Vlassopoulos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Niels Bent Larsen
Niels Bent Larsen Technical University of Denmark
Hiroshi Watanabe
Hiroshi Watanabe Kyoto University

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