Fig. 5: Shape and orientation of knotted ring topologies under increasing shear rate. | Communications Materials

Fig. 5: Shape and orientation of knotted ring topologies under increasing shear rate.

From: Hydrodynamic inflation of ring polymers under shear

Fig. 5

a Gxx (flow), b Gzz (vorticity), c Gyy (gradient), d alignment angle θ, e the number of beads on the knotted section, Nk. f Angle α between vector nk from the ring's to the knotted section's centre of mass and axis vector \(\hat{{\bf{x}}}\), under strong shear, all knot topologies behave almost exactly like a ring with the same contour length N. Different colours correspond to different knot types, as indicated in the legend.

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