Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Liquid Crystal Hydrodynamics
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
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 viscoelastic properties such as shear-thinning and shear-banding.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0010320,
title = {Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Liquid Crystal Hydrodynamics},
author = {Colin Denniston and Enzo Orlandini and J. M. Yeomans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0010320},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages, 5 figures, Revtex