Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer fibers

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1177-1204

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Zhou, Hong ^a,c   Wang, Qi ^b  

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

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPINNING (FIBERS); TENSORS; TEXTILE FIBERS;

AVERAGED KINETIC EQUATIONS; LINEARIZED STABILITY ANALYSIS; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE FIBERS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0033716044     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/s0036139998336778     Document Type: Article

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