Polydisperse linear polymer melts can be microscopically described by the
tube model and fractal reptation dynamics, while on the macroscopic side the
generalized Maxwell model is capable of correctly displaying most of the
rheological behavior. In this paper, a Laplace transform method is derived and
different macroscopic starting points for molecular mass distribution
calculation are compared to a classical light scattering evaluation. The
underlying assumptions comprise the modern understanding on polymer dynamics in
entangled systems but can be stated in a mathematically generalized way. The
resulting method is very easy to use due to its mathematical structure and it
is capable of calculating multimodal molecular mass distributions of linear
polymer melts
