Extendability of Equilibria of Nematic Polymers

The purpose of this paper is to study the extendability of equilibrium states of rodlike nematic polymers with the Maier-Saupe intermolecular potential. We formulate equilibrium states as solutions of a nonlinear system and calculate the determinant of the Jacobian matrix of the nonlinear system. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hongyun Wang, Hong Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2008-01-01
Series:Abstract and Applied Analysis
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/854725