Orientational balances for nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/JNET.1991.16.1.67zbMath0722.76007OpenAlexW2571649744MaRDI QIDQ756526

Stefan Blenk, Wolfgang Muschik

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1991.16.1.67

zbMATH Keywords

discrete systemsstress tensorsnematic liquid crystalglobal balance equationsformal mixture of fluids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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Cites Work

• Anisotropic fluids
• Transport phenomena in anisotropic fluids and liquid crystals
• Some constitutive equations for liquid crystals
• Transport Mechanics in Systems of Orientable Particles

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