Anisotropic microstructure-induced reduction of the Rayleigh instability for liquid crystalline polymers

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 245, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 518-526

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; ANISOTROPY; CAPILLARITY; DRAG; FREE ENERGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SOLVENTS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

ANISOTROPIC EFFECTS; ANISOTROPIC MICROSTRUCTURES; ANISOTROPIC POLYMERS; CAPILLARY INSTABILITY; INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIALS; LOW CAPILLARY NUMBERS; RAYLEIGH INSTABILITY; VISCOELASTIC MODELS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0003025636     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00440-X     Document Type: Article

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8. M.G. Forest, Q. Wang, Construction and stability of biaxial nematic steady states of liquid crystalline polymers in imposed elongational flows, University of North Carolina, Department of Mathematics Preprint 98-008, to be submitted to J. Rheology.
9. M.G. Forest, Q. Wang, The role of microstructure in taming the Rayleigh capillary instability of cylindrical jets, Physica D (1998), to appear.