Title: Orientational instabilities in Couette flow of non-flow-aligning nematic liquid crystals
Abstract: A numerical solution of the continuum equations for nonaligning nematic liquid crystals in cylindrical Couette flow is obtained. The initial orientation of the director is radial and therefore contained in the plane of the shear. The stability of the solution is analyzed for a series of sets of material constants in order to investigate the dependence of the stability threshold with temperature. The results are compared with experiments.
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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