Multi-scale Modeling of Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Download or read book Multi-scale Modeling of Liquid Crystalline Polymers written by Robert Kehalani Sentinella and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquid Crystalline Polymers have a wide variety of applications. They are not only interesting to the industrial world, but to the academic world as well. To take full advantage of these interesting materials, it is necessary to develop numerical algorithms that predict their behavior when subjected to processing flows. In the current work, an algorithm was developed that directly solves the full Doi-Marrucci-Greco (DMG) model for a 2D flow domain when subjected to simple shear flow. This algorithm is referred to as the direct solver. Due to the extremely high computational cost of implementing this direct solver, a Multi-Resolution based methodology was designed and proves to be a viable technique in reducing this cost. It also displays promise as a tool that could be applied to different complex fluids problems and perhaps beyond.