Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.525, 194-203, 2010
Shear-Induced Reorientation in a Tumbling Type Nematic Hybrid-Oriented Film
It has been shown the simple way, in the framework of the classical Ericksen-Leslie theory, together with accounting for the thermoconductivity equation for the temperature field, how a temperature gradient across a tumbling type hybrid-oriented liquid crystalline film, such as 4-cyano-4'-octylbiphenyl, may set up under action of a shear stress (SS). It has also been shown that the temperature difference on the restricted surfaces, which initially was equal to zero, is proportional to the heat flow, for instance, across the upper restricted surface, when the temperature on the lower surface is kept constant, and grows up to several degrees, under influence of the SS effort directed both in the positive and negative directions.
Keywords:Liquid crystal;thermomechanical stress