Nonhomogeneous shear flow in concentrated liquid-crystalline solutions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Green, J Micah ^a   Brown, A Robert ^b   Armstrong, C Robert ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; RHEOLOGY;

DOI DIFFUSION EQUATION; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE SOLUTIONS; SHARP INTER-DOMAIN INTERFACES;

SHEAR FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 36849086810     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2803857     Document Type: Article

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