1-D models for thin filaments of liquid-crystalline polymers: Coupling of orientation and flow in the stability of simple solutions

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 527-554

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^b   Bechtel, Stephen E ^c  

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

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; FIBERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPINNING (FIBERS); STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELONGATION FLOW; FIBER SPINNING FLOW; FLOW ORIENTATION COUPLING; ONE DIMENSIONAL; RAYLEIGH CAPILLARY INSTABILITY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0030790566     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2789(96)00173-x     Document Type: Article

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