Shear induced alignment in a model of a block copolymer
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-25 v1 Materials Science
Pattern Formation and Solitons
patt-sol
Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
A mesoscopic model of a diblock copolymer is used to study the stability of a lamellar structure under a uniform shear flow. We first obtain the nonlinear lamellar solutions under both steady and oscillatory shear flows. Regions of existence of these solutions are determined as a function of the parameters of the model and of the flow. Finally, we address the stability of the lamellar solution against long wavelength perturbations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903336,
title = {Shear induced alignment in a model of a block copolymer},
author = {Francois Drolet and Jorge Vinals},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903336},
year = {2015}
}
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