Orientational effect of the extensional flow field on solutions of rigid rodlike macromolecules-disappearance of the isotropic to nematic phase transition

Bifurcational analysis of the isotropic-

Bifurcational analysis of the isotropic-nematic phase transition of rigid rod polymers subjected to biaxial stretching flow

✍ Alejandro D. Rey 📂 Article 📅 1995 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 806 KB

## Abstract A bifurcational analysis is performed on Doi's equation of nematodynamics that describes the non‐equlibrium isotropic‐nematic phase transition of rigid rod polymers in the presence of steady biaxial stretching flow. The symmetry of the flow and of the governing order parameter equations