NKACM Preprint Series

2005

1.X. Zheng, M. G. Forest, R. Lipton, R Zhou, Q. Wang, “Exact scaling laws for electrical conductivity properties of nematic polymer nano-composite monodomains,” Advanced Functional Materials, in press, 2005.

2. M. G. Forest, R. Zhou, and Q. Wang, “Kinetic structure simulations of nematic polymers in plane Couette cells, I: The algorithm and benchmarks,” SIAM MMS, in press, 2005.

3. H. Zhou, M. G. Forest, X. Zheng, Q. Wang, R.  Lipton, “Extension-enhanced conductivity of liquid crystalline polymer nano-composites,” Macromolecular Symposia, in press, 2005.

4.M. G. Forest and Q. Wang, Hydrodynamic theories for blends of flexible polymer and nematic polymers, Physical Review E, in press 2005.

5. M. G. Forest, R. Zhou, Qi Wang , X. Zheng, R. Lipton, “ Anisotropy and Heterogeneity of Nematic Polymer Nano-Composite Film Properties,”  to appear in IMA volume on Soft Matter, 2005.

6.M. G. Forest, R. Zhou, and Q. Wang, Kinetic structure simulations of nematic polymers in plane Couette cells, II. to appear SIAM MMS, 2005.

7. Z. Cui, M. G. Forest, and Q. Wang, "Effects of the long-range anisotropic elasticity in weak plane Couette and Poisuille flows of nematic  liquid crystal polymers," to appear Siam Journal on Applied Math, 2005.

8. P. B. Chase, A. Kataoka, B. C. W. Tanner, J. M. Macpherson, X. Xu, Q. Wang, M. Reginier and T. Daniel, “Spatially explicit, nanomechanical models of the muscle half sarcomere: Implications for mechanical tuning in atrophy and fatigue,” to appear in Astraunica Acta, 2005.

9.M. G. Forest, R. Zhou, Qi Wang , X. Zheng, R. Lipton, “Anisotropy and dynamics ranges in effective properties of sheared nematic polymer nano-composites,”  to appear Advanced Functional Materials, in press 2005.

10.  Z. Cui and Q. Wang, "A continuum mechanics model for flows of chiral nematic polymers and permeation flows,"  to appear J. of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2005.

11. Z. Cui, M. C. Calderer, Q. Wang, "A kinetic theory for flows of cholesteric liquid crystal polymers," to appear Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, 2005.

12. M. G. Forest, Q. Wang, and R. Zhou,  “Extending the magnetic/electric field-hydrodynamic analogy of rod & platelet suspensions to strongly coupled,” submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005.

13. H. Zhou, H. Wang, M. G. forest, and Q. Wang, “A new proof on uniaxial equilibria of Smoluchowski equation for rodlike nematic polymers,”  Nonlinearity, 2005.

14. Q. Wang, S. Saircar, and H. Zhou, “Solutions of the Smoluchowski equation for nematic polymers under imposed fields,” to appear Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 2005.

15. M. G. Forest, R. zhou, and Q. Wang, Spatial coherence, rheological chaotic dynamics, and hydrodynamic feedback of nematic polymers  in plate-driven shear, submitted to PRL, 2005.

16. W. Kang, N. Xi, J. Tan, Y. Zhao, and Y. Wang, Coordinated Formation Control of Multiple Nonlinear Systems, J. Control Theory and Applications, in press, 2005.

17. W. Kang, Moving Horizon Numerical Observers of Nonlinear Control Systems, IEEE Trans. on Automat. Contr., in press, 2006.

18. Q. Gong, W. Kang and I. M. Ross, A Pseudospectral Method for the Optimal Control of Constrained Feedback Linearizable Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, in press, 2006.

19. W. Kang, Q. Gong, and M. Ross, A Pseudospectral Method for a Class of Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems with Discontinuous Controller, Proc. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, in press, 2005.

20. Wei Kang, Numerical Observers of Control Systems Using Computational Optimization Method, Proc. IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, in press, 2005.

21. Q. Gong, W. Kang, and M. Ross, A Pseudospectral Method for the Optimal Control of Constrained Feedback Linearizable Systems, Proc. IEEE Conference on Control Applications, in press, 2005.

22. Q. Gong, M. Ross, and W. Kang, A Pseudospectral Observer for Nonlinear Systems, Proc. AIAA Guidence, Navigation, and Control Conference, in press, 2005.