The origin of stress-oscillation damping during start-up and reversal of torsional shearing of nematics

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 485-497

  Mather, Patrick T ^a   Pearson, Dale S ^e   Larson, Ronald G ^b   Gu, Dong Feng ^c   Jamieson, Alexander M ^d  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

8CB; Liquid crystal; Tumbling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000045286     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00368126     Document Type: Article

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