VISCOSITY COEFFICIENTS OF NEMATIC HARD PARTICLE FLUIDS

Authors
Citation
Gt. Evans, VISCOSITY COEFFICIENTS OF NEMATIC HARD PARTICLE FLUIDS, The Journal of chemical physics, 108(3), 1998, pp. 1089-1093
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
ISSN journal
00219606
Volume
108
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1089 - 1093
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9606(1998)108:3<1089:VCONHP>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Enskog kinetic theory is applied to the calculation of the Miesowicz v iscosities and the Leslie coefficients of a nematic liquid crystal com prised of hard ellipsoidal particles. The anisotropies in the calculat ed viscosities are consistent with those derived from computer simulat ion, affine transformation theory and from experiment. When the Miesow icz viscosities are combined with the diffusion coefficients for a nem atic, approximate Stokes-Einstein relations are found. (C) 1998 Americ an Institute of Physics. [S0021-9606(98)51603-0].