Rheologica Acta, Vol.39, No.4, 360-370, 2000
Non-symmetric viscoelasticity of anisotropic polymer liquids
The liquid crystalline (LC) polymers are considered as anisotropic viscoelastic liquids with nonsymmetric stresses. A simple constitutive equation for nematic polymers describing the coupled relaxation of symmetric and antisymmetric parts of the stress tensor is formulated. For illustration of non-symmetric anisotropic viscoelasticity, the simplest viscometric flows of polymeric nematics in the magnetic field are considered. The frequency and shear rate dependencies of extended set of Miesowicz viscosities are predicted.
Keywords:macroscopic theory;polymer nematics;non-symmetric viscoelasticity;relaxation anisotropy;complex viscosities;non-linear sheer viscosities