FENE

This article is about finitely extensible nonlinear elastic. For other uses, see Fene.

An example of multi-bead FENE model

FENE stands for the finitely extensible nonlinear elastic model of a long-chained polymer. It simplifies the chain of monomers by connecting a sequence of beads with nonlinear springs. The spring force law is governed by inverse Langevin function or approximated by the Warner's relationship

$F_i=\frac{H R_i}{1-(R_i/L_{max})^2}$

See also

• FENE-P

References

• Dynamics of dissolved polymer chains in isotropic turbulence

External links

• QPolymer: an open source (for Mac OS X) FENE model Brownian dynamics simulation software