Shear-induced biaxiality in nematic polymers

DOI10.1016/S0377-0257(99)00084-1zbMath0981.76006OpenAlexW2083468627MaRDI QIDQ1566623

Epifanio G. Virga, Pier Luca Maffettone, André M. Sonnet

Publication date: 18 March 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-0257(99)00084-1

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin methodshear flownematic liquid crystalalignment tensororientational distribution functionexpansion in spherical harmonicsrigid rod modelin-plane tumblingshear-induced biaxialityuniaxial state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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