A theoretical investigation of the Pieranski-Guyon instability in Couette flow of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1016/0377-0257(82)85013-1zbMath0495.76002MaRDI QIDQ1169867

P. J. Barratt, Ignacio Zúñiga

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0257(82)85013-1

zbMATH Keywords

linear stability; onset of instability; Ericksen-Leslie theory; polar coordinates; velocity fields; stability of Couette flow; critical shear rate thresholds; director; homogeneous instability; incompressible nematic liquid crystals; material MBBA; narrow gap approximation; orthonormalisation; space between two long, concentric, circular cylinders, common axis in vertical direction; Taylor roll instability; uniformly aligned state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76A05: Non-Newtonian fluids

76E25: Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

76A99: Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena

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