Macroscopic constitutive equations for liquid crystals induced by their mesoscopic orientation distribution

DOI10.1016/0020-7225(92)90062-LzbMath0759.76009MaRDI QIDQ1199200

Wolfgang Muschik, Harald Ehrentraut, Stefan Blenk

Publication date: 16 January 1993

Published in: International Journal of Engineering Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

dissipation inequalityalignment tensororientational distribution functionLandau conditionmesoscopic orientational balance equationsmicroscopic director

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Theory of constitutive functions in solid mechanics (74A20)

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