Shear rheology of amphiphilic cubic liquid crystals from large-scale kinetic lattice-Boltzmann simulations

Soft Matter

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4446-4463

  Saksena, R S ^a   Coveney, P V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC SYSTEMS; AMPHIPHILICS; BICONTINUOUS; COUETTE FLOWS; CUBIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CUBIC MORPHOLOGY; CUBIC PHASE; CUBIC PHASIS; DEFECT TEXTURES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; LARGE SYSTEM SIZE; LATTICE BOLTZMANN MODELS; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN SIMULATION; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; MULTIPLE DOMAINS; NON-NEWTONIAN; RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RHEOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SHEAR RHEOLOGY; STRESS FIELD;

CRYSTALS; FLOW SIMULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; RHEOLOGY; SIMULATORS;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 70449469480     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b911884e     Document Type: Article

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