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A Kinetic Theory Approach To Ordered Fluids: Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Methods
José A. Carrillo, Patrick E. Farrell, Andrea Medaglia +1
We present a direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method for the kinetic theory of ordered fluids recently introduced by the authors. The microscopic constituents of these fluids c…
Kinetic derivation of thermal viscous models for nematic liquid crystal dynamics
P. E. Farrell, J. Málek, O. Souček +1
We develop a macroscopic thermodynamic theory of nematic liquid crystals starting from a kinetic theory of ordered fluids with a collision operator of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) t…
A kinetic interpretation of thermomechanical restrictions of continua
Patrick E. Farrell, Josef Málek, Ondřej Souček +1
Rajagopal and Srinivasa's thermodynamic framework derives constitutive relations in continuum mechanics from two scalar functions describing energy storage and entropy production v…
A Kinetic Theory Approach to Ordered Fluids
José A. Carrillo, Patrick E. Farrell, Andrea Medaglia +1
We develop a unified kinetic theory for ordered fluids, which systematically extends the phase space with the appropriate generalized angular momenta. Our theory yields a uniquely…
Time-harmonic waves in Korteweg and nematic-Korteweg fluids
Patrick E. Farrell, Umberto Zerbinati
We derive the Helmholtz--Korteweg equation, which models acoustic waves in Korteweg fluids. We further derive a nematic variant of the Helmholtz-Korteweg equation, which incorporat…
Kinetic derivation of a compressible Leslie--Ericksen equation for rarified calamitic gases
Patrick E. Farrell, Giovanni Russo, Umberto Zerbinati
Nematic ordering describes the phenomenon where anisotropic molecules tend to locally align, like matches in a matchbox. This ordering can arise in solids (as nematic elastomers),…