Kinetic theory for flows of nonhomogeneous rodlike liquid crystalline polymers with a nonlocal intermolecular potential

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Wang, Qi ^a   Weinan, E ^b   Liu, Chun ^c   Zhang, Pingwen ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; FREE ENERGY DENSITY; INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIAL; SHORT RANGE ELASTICITY;

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 41349107335     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.051504     Document Type: Article

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