Consistent closure schemes for statistical models of anisotropic fluids

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 149, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 40-55

  Kröger, Martin ^a   Ammar, Amine ^b   Chinesta, Francisco ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Univ Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Alignment tensors; Anisotropic fluids; Closure schemes; Ferrofluids; Nematic fluids; Numerical solution of Fokker Planck equation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC FLUIDS; ELONGATIONAL FLOW; NEMATIC FLUIDS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSORS;

EID: 38149042653     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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