A theoretical investigation of the Pieranski-Guyon instability in Couette flow of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1016/0377-0257(82)85013-1zbMath0495.76002OpenAlexW2037989986MaRDI QIDQ1169867

P. J. Barratt, Ignacio Zúñiga

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0257(82)85013-1

zbMATH Keywords

linear stabilityonset of instabilityEricksen-Leslie theorypolar coordinatesvelocity fieldsstability of Couette flowcritical shear rate thresholdsdirectorhomogeneous instabilityincompressible nematic liquid crystalsmaterial MBBAnarrow gap approximationorthonormalisationspace between two long, concentric, circular cylinders, common axis in vertical directionTaylor roll instabilityuniformly aligned state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena (76A99)

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