Study of phase transition in homogeneous, rigid extended nematics and magnetic suspensions using an order-reduction method

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Ji, Guanghua ^a   Wang, Qi ^b   Zhang, Pingwen ^a   Zhou, Hong ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Integral equations; Liquid crystal phase transformations; Liquid crystal polymers; Magnetic fluids; Magneto hydrodynamics; Nematic liquid crystals; Nonlinear equations

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TENSORS; VECTORS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; FREE ENERGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEMATIC ORDER TENSOR; ORDER-REDUCTION METHOD; POLARITY VECTOR; SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; ALGEBRAIC INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION; ORDER REDUCTION METHODS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS);

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MAGNETIC FLUIDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TENSORS; VECTORS;

EID: 33846091053     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2408484     Document Type: Article

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