Post-Tanner spreading of nematic droplets

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 21, Issue 46, 2009, Pages

  Mechkov, S ^a   Cazabat, A M ^b   Oshanin, G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY OF MOSCOW   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; LUBRICATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PHASE INTERFACES; THIN FILMS;

LIQUID INTERACTIONS; LUBRICATION APPROXIMATIONS; NEMATIC DROPLETS; NON-NEWTONIAN RHEOLOGY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; QUASI-STATIONARY; SOLID SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM EQUATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 72249093543     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/46/464134     Document Type: Article

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