dc.contributor.advisor | Liu, Weishi | |
dc.contributor.author | Dorn, Timothy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-10-28T17:16:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-10-28T17:16:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12107 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10322 | |
dc.description.abstract | The liquid crystal phase is a phase of matter between the solid and liquid phase whose flow is characterized by a velocity field and a director field which describes locally the orientation of the liquid crystal. In this work we explore shearing flows in two related continuum models of liquid crystals. The first is a phenomenological model of frictional forces in a geological fault, which is motivated by the second model, the Leslie-Ericksen continuum theory of liquid crystals. | |
dc.format.extent | 89 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Mathematics | |
dc.subject | Materials science | |
dc.title | Shearing Flows in Liquid Crystal Models | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Oh, Myunghyun | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Stanislavova, Milena | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Van Vleck, Erik | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Shi, JiCong | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Mathematics | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 8085733 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |