Anchoring-induced texture & shear banding of nematic polymers in shear cells

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 707-733

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

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring induced structure; Nematic polymers; Shear flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348952125     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2007.8.707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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