Dynamic texture scaling of sheared nematic polymers in the large Ericksen number limit

DOI10.1016/J.JNNFM.2010.03.003zbMath1274.76148OpenAlexW1967501265MaRDI QIDQ377317

Sebastian Heidenreich, M. Gregory Forest, Ruhai Zhou, Xiao-Feng Yang, Siegfried Hess

Publication date: 6 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377025710000893?np=y

zbMATH Keywords

nematic polymersdefect coreheterogeneous propertieshigh Ericksen numberlength scalerod dispersions

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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