Phase ordering in nematic liquid crystals
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 64:2 (2001) ARTN 021701
Simulations of liquid crystal hydrodynamics.
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 222 (2001) U380-U380
Simulations of liquid crystals in Poiseuille flow
COMPUT THEOR POLYM S 11:5 (2001) 389-395
Abstract:
Lattice Boltzmann simulations are used to explore the behavior of liquid crystals subject to Poiseuille flow. In the nematic regime at low shear rates we find two possible steady-state configurations of the director field. The selected state depends on both the shear rate and the history of the sample. For both director configurations there is clear evidence of shear thinning, a decrease in the viscosity with increasing shear rate. Moreover, at very high shear rates or when the order parameter is large, the system transforms to a 'log-rolling state' with boundary layers that may exhibit oscillatory behavior. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.Statistical physics of adaptive correlation of agents in a market
AIP CONF PROC 553 (2001) 95-100
Abstract:
Recent results and interpretations are presented for the thermal minority game, concentrating on deriving and justifying the fundamental stochastic differential equation for the microdynamics.Theory of asymmetric nonadditive binary hard-sphere mixtures
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 64:5 (2001) ARTN 051202