Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid crystal hydrodynamics.

We describe a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate liquid crystal hydrodynamics. The equations of motion are written in terms of a tensor order parameter. This allows both the isotropic and the nematic phases to be considered. Backflow effects and the hydrodynamics of topological defects are naturally included in the simulations, as are non-Newtonian flow properties such as shear thinning and shear banding.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

• Publication date

  2000-10-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056702arXiv cond-mat/0010320PMID 11415040
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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