Spatial development of director orientation of tumbling nematic liquid crystals in pressure-driven channel flow

DOI10.1016/S0377-0257(98)00064-0MaRDI QIDQ1818563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shigeomi Chono, Tomohiro Tsuji, Morton M. Denn

Publication date 2 November 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-0257(98)00064-0

zbMATH Keywords

developing flowdiscrete orientationEricksen numberfinite difference methodflow between parallel platesinlet lengthLeslie-Ericksen equationstexturetumbling nematic liquid crystaltumbling parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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