Affiliation:
1. Huygens Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden
Abstract
Abstract
A nonlinear inhomogeneous relaxation equation for the alignment tensor is derived from a Fokker-Planck-equation for the orientational distribution function where torques exerted by a molecular field and by the gradient of the flow velocity are taken into account. Phenomenological coefficients characterizing the flow alignment in the isotropic and in the nematic phases are related to molecular parameters.
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics
Cited by
247 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献