A kinetic-hydrodynamic simulation of microstructure of liquid crystal polymers in plane shear flow

DOI10.1016/j.jnnfm.2006.09.005zbMath1195.76125OpenAlexW2134794947MaRDI QIDQ994530

Pingwen Zhang, Hai-jun Yu

Publication date: 17 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2006.09.005

zbMATH Keywords

microstructurenematic polymerskinetic-hydrodynamic simulationnon-local intermolecular potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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