MISCELLANEA

STATISTICAL CALCULATION OF THE VISCOSITY COEFFICIENTS OF THE ORDERED PHASES OF DNA MOLECULES
V. B. Nemtsov and A. V. Shirko UDC 536.758 Statistical calculation of the viscosity coefficients of the ordered phases of DNA molecules is performed. As a starting point of calculation, an expression which describes the tensor of viscous stresse is used, whereas calculations of time correlation functions that determine kinetic coefficients are performed with the aid of a relaxation equation which characterizes the evolution of the tensor order parameter. Belarusian State Technological University, 13a Sverdlov Str., Minsk, 220050, Belarus; email: nemtsov_vb@ mail.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 166-173, July-August, 2006. Original article submitted October 3, 2005.