Abstract
Liquid crystals and anisotropic granular materials share some common properties: Their constituents are non-spherical, both systems react fluid-like under certain conditions (temperature or stress load) and the local, orientational order influences the material properties. We shall see that a general continuum theory with internal degrees of freedom can be used to model such systems and that some predictions about streaming anisotropy can be made regardless of the scale of the system. Finally, the predictions obtained will be compared to experimental results.
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Ehrentraut, H. (2001). Anisotropic Fluids: From Liquid Crystals to Granular Materials. In: Straughan, B., Greve, R., Ehrentraut, H., Wang, Y. (eds) Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04439-1_2
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