Transport phenomena in anisotropic fluids and liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/jnet.1986.11.3-4.175zbMath0607.76001OpenAlexW1998912838MaRDI QIDQ1085693

B. George

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1986.11.3-4.175

zbMATH Keywords

irreversible thermodynamicsnon-Newtonian fluidsstress tensorPoiseuille flowanisotropic fluidsliquid crystalslocal conservation lawsnematic phasebirefringencepolymeric liquidsmolecular liquidsflow alignmentbroken rotational invarianceferro-fluidslinear constitutive relationorienting magnetic fielduniform alignmentviscosity properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Related Items (7)

Unified description of the flow alignment and viscosity in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals ⋮ Boundary effects on the flow-induced orientational anisotropy and on the flow properties of a molecular liquid ⋮ Wall effects for dilute polymer solutions in Poiseuille flow ⋮ Macroscopic constitutive equations for liquid crystals induced by their mesoscopic orientation distribution ⋮ Orientational balances for nematic liquid crystals ⋮ A thermodynamical approach of wall effects on the rheology of dilute polymer solutions ⋮ Relaxation of the alignment tensor in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals in the presence of an external fields

Cites Work

• Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. I.

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