Type of Document	Thesis
Author	Liu, Fangyu
Author's Email Address	lfangyu@math.fsu.edu
URN	etd-07192004-161611
Title	Steady Dynamics in Shearing Flows of Nematic Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Mathematics, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Qi Wang Committee Chair Kaisheng Song Committee Member Mark Sussman Committee Member
Keywords	Biaxial Steady State Nematic Liquid Crystal Shearing Flow
Date of Defense	2004-07-19
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The biaxiality of the steady state solutions and their stability to in-plane disturbances in shearing flows of nematic liquid crystalline polymers are studied by using simplified Wang (2002) model. We obtain all the steady states of Wang model exhibit biaxial symmetry in which two directors are confined to the shearing plane and analysis their stability with respect to in-plane disturbances at isolated Debra numbers and polymer concentration values.
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