Nematohydrodynamics for colloidal self-assembly and transport phenomena

Time evolution of the multiparticle aggregate (left - dual system, right - triplet) in a nematic liquid crystal microchannel flow. Homeotropic anchoring is applied on the channel walls and particle surface. The fluid flow is in the positive x-direction. The solid black lines represent the director orientation in the channel and the coloured contour represent the magnitude of the axial (x- component) velocity field. The time and the velocity fields in the figures are dimensionless.400