Alignment and rheo-oscillator criteria for sheared nematic polymer films in the monolayer limit

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 339-356

  Lee, Joo Hee ^a   Forest, M Gregory ^a   Zhou, Ruhai ^b  

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

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal polymers; Shear flow; Steady unsteady transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644545098     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2006.6.339     Document Type: Article

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