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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 2.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2007 Sep 9;35(12):2077–2086. doi: 10.1007/s10439-007-9372-0

Table 1.

Best-fit parameter values for the steady-state viscosity for (1) a simple exponential model, (2) the Arrhenius model, (3) the WLF model, and (4) a simplified version of the WLF; R2 is the coefficient of determination for each case (temperatures are presented in an absolute scale).

Steady-State Viscosity Model VS55 7.05M DMSO

η0 B0 Tr R2 η0 B0 Tr R2
(1) ηss = η0 exp(−B0T) 2.61×109 6.46×10−2 - 0.8138 1.15×108 4.82×10−2 - 0.7776
(2)ηss=η0exp(B0T) 7.78×10−2 2237.5 - 0.8723 5.56×10−1 1815.2 - 0.9006
(3)ηss=η0exp[B0(TTg)Tr+(TTg)] 1.868×105 5.965 48.59 0.8752 1.004×106 4.592 8.48 0.9562
(4)ηss=η0exp[B0TTr] 383.62 316.68 101.9 0.8752 9338.1 42.7 131.3 0.9560