Homogeneous pattern selection and director instabilities of nematic liquid crystal polymers induced by elongational flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 490-498

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

^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

FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERN; LIQUID CRYSTAL; POLYMER;

EID: 0034037116     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870255     Document Type: Article

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