Dynamic texture scaling of sheared nematic polymers in the large Ericksen number limit

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 165, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 687-697

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Heidenreich, Sebastian ^b   Hess, Siegfried ^c   Yang, Xiaofeng ^d   Zhou, Ruhai ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defect core; Heterogeneous properties; High Ericksen number; Length scale; Nematic polymers; Rod dispersions

Indexed keywords

2D SIMULATIONS; A-PRIORI ESTIMATES; CELLULAR FLOW; DEBORAH NUMBERS; DEFECT CORE; DEFECT LAYERS; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; DISORDERED PHASIS; DYNAMIC TEXTURES; ELASTIC STRESS; ERICKSEN NUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FINE STRUCTURES; FRANK ELASTICITY; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; KINETIC MODELS; LENGTH SCALE; LIQUID CRYSTAL MODEL; MATERIALS ENGINEERING; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC POLYMER; NEW STRATEGY; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ORIENTATION TENSOR; OUT OF PHASE; PARAMETER REGIMES; PROCESSING CONDITION; ROTATIONAL RELAXATIONS; SHEAR RATES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STEADY SHEAR; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TENSOR MODEL; THREE MODELS; THREE SPACE DIMENSIONS; TIME-AVERAGED;

DEFECTS; DISPERSIONS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ERBIUM; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLDS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); RIGID STRUCTURES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TENSORS; TEXTURES;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 77953293848     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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