Interfacial forces and Marangoni flow on a nematic drop retracting in an isotropic fluid

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 281-288

  Yue, Pengtao ^a   Feng, James J ^a   Liu, Chun ^b   Shen, Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring energy; Dynamic interfacial tension; Liquid crystals; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ANCHORING ENERGY; DYNAMIC INTERFACIAL TENSION; INTERFACIAL FORCES; NEMATIC DROPS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; FLOW KINETICS; FORCE; LIQUID; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENSION;

EID: 23944437416     PISSN: 00219797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2005.04.018     Document Type: Article

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