2-D lid-driven cavity flow of nematic polymers: An unsteady sea of defects

Soft Matter

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1138-1156

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a,c   Forest, M Gregory ^a,b   Mullins, William ^a   Wang, Qi ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY WALL; CORNER FLOW; DISORDERED PHASIS; FLOW EQUATIONS; FLOW SOLVER; LEVEL SETS; LID DRIVEN CAVITY FLOW; LID-DRIVEN CAVITIES; LOCAL FLOWS; MODEL PROBLEMS; MULLINS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NEMATIC POLYMER; ORDERED PHASIS; ORIENTATION FIELDS; ORIENTATION TENSOR; ORIENTATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SLIP FLOW; SOLID WALL; STATIONARY FLOW; VISCO-ELASTIC FLUID; VISCOUS FLUIDS; VISCOUS SIMULATIONS;

DEFECTS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELASTICITY; FLOW SIMULATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POLYMERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 79951590753     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b908502e     Document Type: Article

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