Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
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چکیده
We developed a full non-local model to nematic elastomers in terms of the displacement and the tensor order parameter. We consider both elastic and nematic contributions. This model allows spatial variation of the order parameter field. We also get the dynamics equation using variation principle applied the Lagrangian and the Rayleigh dissipation function. By using small approximation, we get some results and compare with the literature. If we consider the scalar order parameter fixed, we recover the usual Ericksen-Leslie theory with the viscous term including the elastic contribution.
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