Hydrodynamic instabilities at decay flow of nematic liquid crystals through the plane capillary of a variable gap
Abstract
In this paper we consider the possibility to study hydrodynamic instabilities (HDI) in a specific type of a decay flow existing at a rise of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in the flat capillary of a variable gap. In this case the capillary can be replaced by a number of parallel channels of different gaps with different instant values of a pressure gradient, which induces a flow. The last feature makes such flow to be different from the previously studied decay flow [1] with a constant value of a pressure gradient, applied to the channels of different thickness.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- December 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1742-6596/936/1/012065
- Bibcode:
- 2017JPhCS.936a2065S