Modeling and simulations of drop pinch-off from liquid crystal filaments and the leaky liquid crystal faucet immersed in viscous fluids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-14

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Gregory Forest, M ^b   Li, Huiyuan ^c   Liu, Chun ^d   Shen, Jie ^e   Wang, Qi ^a   Chen, Falai ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Drop pinch off; Liquid crystal filament; Phase field model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DROPS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE INTERFACES; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

DROP PINCH-OFF; FLUID PHASIS; FLUID-PHASE; LIQUID CRYSTAL FILAMENT; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASIS; LIQUID-CRYSTALS; PHASE FIELD MODELS; PINCHOFF; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 84871804385     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.10.042     Document Type: Article

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