Convective nonlinearities for the orientational tensor order parameter in polymeric systems

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 375-382

  Pleiner, Harald ^a   Liu, Mario ^b   Brand, Helmut R ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convective nonlinearities; Nematic liquid crystalline polymers; Orientational fluctuations; Stress tensor

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

EID: 0036065996     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-002-0237-z     Document Type: Article

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