Transient behavior of liquid crystalline polymers
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 87 (5) , 3120-3126
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.453049
Abstract
We study the stochastic differential equation for the motion of rod‐like polymers in the isotropic and liquid crystalline phase for simple shear flow and elongational flow. We find a simple interpretation of the approximation given by Doi and we are able to treat the exact equations numerically. Comparing the results with the Doi approximation we find qualitative agreement.Keywords
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