Dimensional robustness and instability of sheared, semidilute, nanorod dispersions

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 622-654

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Cui, Zhenlu ^b   Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^c   Shen, Jie ^d  

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

^b FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nematic polymers; Semi implicit scheme; Sheared flow

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FLUIDS; CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DEBORAH NUMBERS; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROLS; GALERKIN; GRADIENT STRUCTURES; MATERIALS PROCESSING; MESOSCOPIC; MINNEAPOLIS; MODELING AND SIMULATIONS; NEMATIC POLYMERS; NON NEWTONIANS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL STABILITIES; ORIENTATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PHYSICAL SPACES; SEMI-IMPLICIT SCHEME; SEMIDILUTE; SHEAR RATES; SHEARED FLOW; SPACE DIMENSIONS; STEADY SHEARS; STRONG ANISOTROPIES; TENSOR MODELS; UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; UNSTEADY RESPONSES; VORTICITY DIRECTIONS;

ABS RESINS; ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE STABILITY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VORTICITY;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 55149100646     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070707981     Document Type: Article

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