Monodomain response of arbitrary aspect ratio nematic polymers in general linear planar flows

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-31

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^b   Zhou, Ruhai ^a   Choate, Eric P ^a  

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

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear planar flow; Monodomain response; Nematic polymer

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

MONODOMAIN RESPONSES; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NEMATIC POLYMERS; PLANAR FLOWS;

NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

FLOW MODELING; NON-NEWTONIAN FLOW; POLYMER; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 2542474176     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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