Supercritical bifurcations in simple shear flow of a non-aligning nematic: Reactive parameter and director anchoring effects (Q688005)
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Supercritical bifurcations in simple shear flow of a non-aligning nematic: Reactive parameter and director anchoring effects (English)
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26 January 1994
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Nonlinear numerical analysis of the Leslie-Ericksen equations for transient and steady rectilinear simple shear flows is presented for a typical non-aligning rigid-rod low molecular weight nematic. A computationally efficient and accurate form of the torque balance, gyroscopic torque balance, is formulated and implemented. A series of experimentally measured material constant sets is used to investigate the effect of the reactive parameter on the three-dimensional orientation field. Stable steady state solutions for both parallel and homeotropic orientation anchorings are obtained. The exchange of stability in the orientation and velocity fields is described as a supercritical bifurcation.
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dynamic simulation
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wall orientation anchoring
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Leslie-Ericksen equations
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non-aligning rigid-rod low molecular weight nematic
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gyroscopic torque balance
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three-dimensional orientation field
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