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

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 79, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 515-527

  Chono, Shigeomi ^a   Tsuji, Tomohiro ^a   Denn, Morton M ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Crystal; Liquid

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTAKE SYSTEMS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEXTURES;

LESLIE-ERICKSEN EQUATION; PRESSURE-DRIVEN CHANNEL FLOW; TUMBLING NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; CRYSTAL; LIQUID;

EID: 0032216338     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0257(98)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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