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Statistical foundation of macroscopic balances for liquid crystals in alignment tensor formulation

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  • Blenk, S.
  • Ehrentraut, H.
  • Muschik, W.

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Starting out with the global balance equations of mass, momentum, angular momentum, and energy formulated on the so-called ten-dimensional doubled phase of position, velocity, orientation, and orientation change velocity, the appropriate local balances are derived, which are defined on the five-dimensional half of the doubled phase space including time, position, and the microscopic director. These so-called orientation balance nematic liquid crystals whose alignment need not be uniform as it is presupposed in theories using macroscopic director fields. In R3 we get the usual phenomenological balance equations of micropolar media having the advantage that the balanced quantities are defined statistically. By expanding the orientation distribution function into a series of multipoles we get alignment tensor fields and an additional alignment tensor balance equation on R3.

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  • Blenk, S. & Ehrentraut, H. & Muschik, W., 1991. "Statistical foundation of macroscopic balances for liquid crystals in alignment tensor formulation," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 174(1), pages 119-138.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:174:y:1991:i:1:p:119-138
    DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(91)90420-H
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    1. Muschik, W. & Papenfuβ, C., 1993. "An evolution criterion of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and its application to liquid crystals," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 201(4), pages 515-526.
    2. Papenfuss, Christina, 2004. "A closure relation for the higher order alignment tensors in liquid crystal theory and the alignment-fabric tensors in damage mechanics from a statistical background," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 331(1), pages 23-41.
    3. Weider, T. & Stottut, U. & Loose, W. & Hess, S., 1991. "Order in fluids: Shear-induced anisotropy in dense fluids of spherical particles and in gases of rotating molecules," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 174(1), pages 1-14.

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