In: Mechanical Engineering
Viscoelasticity and the non-linear rheology of polymers are responsible for phenomena such as rod climbing or die swell as well as part of the challenge of processing polymer melts. 1) explain why from a polymer physics point of view polymer melts can have non-Newtonian behaviors that do not scale linearly with molecular weight and 2) explain what one of these two examples are and posit an explanation for it.