Modelling spreading dynamics of nematic liquid crystals in three spatial dimensions

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 729, Issue , 2013, Pages 214-230

  Lin, T S ^a   Kondic, L ^b   Thiele, U ^a   Cummings, L J ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

interfacial flows (free surface); liquid crystals; thin films

Indexed keywords

DROPS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; THIN FILMS;

DROPLETS SPREADING; ELASTIC DISTORTION; INTERFACIAL FLOW (FREE SURFACE); LONG-WAVE APPROXIMATION; NONLINEAR PARABOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPREADING DROPLETS; SPREADING DYNAMICS; TIME DEPENDENT SIMULATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FREE SURFACE FLOW; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE;

EID: 84880397503     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.297     Document Type: Article

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