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Region I
Region II
-0.3
10
4
10
5
Ericksen number, Er
10
6
computation
scaling
1
0
10
4
10
5
Ericksen number, Er
1.0
0.5
0.0
0
20
40
60
Strain
80
100
Figure 2.21
Predicted dimensionless viscosity as a function of Erciksen number (left),
predicted and measured dimensionless texture length scale as a function of Ericksen
number (middle), and director gray-scale visualization as a function of distance and
strain for
E
= 8 × 10
5
. As the texture refi nes, the viscosity decreases with exponent
−
1
3
.
[Adapted from Kundu et al. (2009).]
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