On weak plane Couette and Poiseuille flows of rigid rod and platelet ensembles

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1227-1260

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

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

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansions; Instability; Liquid crystals; Nematic polymers; Partial differential equations

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS; ELASTICITY CONSTANTS; HYDRODYNAMIC THEORIES; NEMATIC POLYMERS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FEEDBACK; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MACROMOLECULES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RESIDUAL STRESSES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 33644522605     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/04061934x     Document Type: Article

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