Incompressibility conditions in liquid crystals
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Incompressibility conditions in liquid crystals
zbMATH Open document ID: 1026.76005
author: Harald Pleiner
author: Helmut R. Brand
published in: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
publication date: 2002-09-25T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors discuss the implications of incompressibility approximation on relevant transport parameters like viscosities, flow alignment coefficients and rotational viscosities in uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals. They compare the hydrodynamic theory and Leslie-Ericksen approach. By re-defining the pressure in the latter description, an agreement is found between these theories. For systems with positional order, like smectic and columnar liquid crystals the authors show that, generally, the incompressibility does not imply that the displacement field is source-free.
reviewed by: Hilmi Demiray
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76A15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82D30
zbMATH DE Number: 1807878
zbMATH Keywords: Leslie-Ericksen theory
zbMATH Keywords: incompressibility
zbMATH Keywords: nematic liquid crystals
zbMATH Keywords: hydrodynamic theory
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00161-002-0098-9
OpenAlex ID: W1984470979
DOI: 10.1007/S00161-002-0098-9
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1807878