Unified description of the flow alignment and viscosity in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/JNET.1995.20.4.359zbMath0842.76004OpenAlexW2025760405MaRDI QIDQ1909949

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 4 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1995.20.4.359

zbMATH Keywords

irreversible thermodynamicsmacroscopic variableanisotropy of viscositysecond rank alignment tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cites Work

• Relaxation of the alignment tensor in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals in the presence of an external fields
• Transport phenomena in anisotropic fluids and liquid crystals
• Stability and instability of an uniaxial alignment against biaxial distortions in the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals

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