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Viscosities of the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal

A. M. Smondyrev, G. B. Loriot, R. A. Pelcovits

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9505013

Abstract

We present molecular dynamics simulation measurements of the viscosities of the Gay-Berne phenomenological model of liquid crystals in the nematic and isotropic phases. The temperature dependence of the rotational and shear viscosities, including the nonmonotonic behavior of one shear viscosity are in good agreement with experimental data. The bulk viscosities are significantly larger than the shear viscosities, again in agreement with experiment.

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