Spinodal decomposition and nematic coarsening in a rigid-rod solution

DOI10.1016/J.JNNFM.2009.04.002MaRDI QIDQ1046006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Micah J. Green, Robert A. Brown, Robert C. Armstrong

Publication date 21 December 2009

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.2009.04.002

zbMATH Keywords

coarseningfinite-element methodliquid crystallineliquid-crystal polymersnematicphase transitionspinodal decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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• A kinetic-hydrodynamic simulation of microstructure of liquid crystal polymers in plane shear flow
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• Numerical computations of coarsening in the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard model of phase separation
• Rheological phase diagrams for nonhomogeneous flows of rodlike liquid crystalline polymers

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