Spinodal decomposition and nematic coarsening in a rigid-rod solution

DOI10.1016/j.jnnfm.2009.04.002zbMath1178.76072OpenAlexW2088307713MaRDI QIDQ1046006

Micah J. Green, Robert A. Brown, Robert C. Armstrong

Publication date: 21 December 2009

Published in: Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2009.04.002

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitioncoarseningspinodal decompositionfinite-element methodnematicliquid crystallineliquid-crystal polymers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

Cites Work

• Rheological phase diagrams for nonhomogeneous flows of rodlike liquid crystalline polymers
• A kinetic-hydrodynamic simulation of microstructure of liquid crystal polymers in plane shear flow
• Numerical computations of coarsening in the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation
• Nonhomogeneous shear flow in concentrated liquid-crystalline solutions

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