Friction Drag on a Particle Moving in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Details Friction Drag on a Particle Moving in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Friction Drag on a Particle Moving in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

1996-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9608034v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

23 pages RevTeX, including 3 PS figures, 1 PS table and 1 PS-LaTeX figure; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.54.5204

The flow of a liquid crystal around a particle does not only depend on its shape and the viscosity coefficients but also on the direction of the molecules. We studied the resulting drag force on a sphere moving in a nematic liquid crystal (MBBA) in a low Reynold's number approach for a fixed director field (low Ericksen number regime) using the computational artificial compressibility method. Taking the necessary disclination loop around the sphere into account, the value of the drag force anisotropy (F_\perp/F_\parallel=1.50) for an exactly computed field is in good agreement with experiments (~1.5) done by conductivity diffusion measurements. We also present data for weak anchoring of the molecules on the particle surface and of trial fields, which show to be sufficiently good for most applications. Furthermore, the behaviour of the friction close to the transition point nematic <-> isotropic and for a rod-like and a disc-like liquid crystal will be given.

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