Anchoring distortions coupled with plane Couette & Poiseuille flows of nematic polymers in viscous solvents: Morphology in molecular orientation, stress & flow

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 407-425

  Zhou, Hong ^a   Forest, M Gregory ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Nano composites; Nematic polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644539246     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2006.6.407     Document Type: Article

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