Texture evolution of sheared liquid crystalline polymers: Numerical predictions of roll-cells instability, director turbulence, and striped texture with a molecular model

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1417-1444

  Sgalari, Giorgia ^a   Leal, L Gary ^a   Meiburg, Eckart ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMA STABILITY; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

DEBORAH NUMBER; MOLECULAR MODEL; ROLL-CELLS INSTABILITY; SECONDARY FLOW INSTABILITY; SHEARED LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0346306234     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.1621420     Document Type: Article

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