Recent significant advances in theoretical liquid crystalline rheology are presented.
Dynamic simulations are performed using a complete theory which include the three major …

A viscoelastic constitutive equation for liquid crystalline flows is presented in terms of tensor
order parameter dynamics. The presented equation takes into account short range order …

We study the shear problem for nematic polymers as modeled by the molecular kinetic
theory of Doi (1981), focusing on the anomalous slow flow regime. We provide the kinetic …

Using a nonlocal nematic potential, we generalize the Doi theory for nematic polymers to
include distortional elasticity. We derive an evolution equation for the configuration tensor …

We present a mesoscopic theory of the extensional rheology of liquid crystalline carbon
nanotubes (CNTs). We implement the mesoscopic Leslie–Ericksen theory, considering the …

Recent extensions of the Doi kinetic theory for monodisperse nematic liquids describe rigid,
axisymmetric, ellipsoidal macromolecules with finite aspect ratio. Averaging and presumed …

The orientational dynamics of low molecular weight and polymeric nematic liquid crystals in
a flow field is investigated, based on a nonlinear relaxation equation for the second rank …

This review presents theory and simulation of liquid crystal phase ordering in biological
fibrous materials, solutions, and composites in the presence of elastic fields, second phase …

A review of thermodynamic and flow liquid crystal models is presented and applied to a wide
range of biological liquid crystals (BLCs), including helicoidal plywoods, biopolymer …

Based on a relaxation equation for the alignment tensor characterizing the molecular
orientation in liquid crystals under flow we present results for the full orientational dynamics …