Hong
Zhou's Publications
(Listed in reverse chronological order)
- "Laser propagation in
biaxial liquid crystal polymers" (with E. Choate), Fourteenth Annual Directed Energy
Symposium Proceedings, pages
1381-1396, 2011
- "Transient temperature distributions
produced in a two-layer finite structure by a dithering or rotating laser
beam", Fourteenth Annual
Directed Energy Symposium Proceedings, pages 1416-1431, 2011
- "Stability of equilibria of nematic liquid
crystalline polymers" (with H. Wang), Acta Mathematica Scientia, 31B(6), 2289-2304, 2011
- "Numerical solution for
a transient temperature distribution on a finite domain due to a dithering
or rotating laser beam" (with T. Tan), International Journal of Operations Research and Information
Systems, in press
- "Light propagation in
biaxial nematic liquid crystal polymers using
finite-difference time-domain method" (with E. Choate), 2011 Directed Energy Systems
Symposium Proceedings, 2011
- "Transient temperature
distribution on a finite domain induced by a dithering or rotating laser
beam" (with T. Tan), 2011
Directed Energy Systems Symposium Proceedings, pages 83-105, 2011
- "Temperature rise
induced by a rotating or dithering laser beam", Advanced Studies
in Theoretical Physics, Vol.
5 (no. 10), 443-468, 2011(PDF)
- "Observability of the Doi orientation tensor model", Applied Mathematical
Sciences, Vol. 5 (no. 7),
337-350, 2011 (PDF)
- "Phase diagram of nematic polymer monolayers
with the Onsager interaction potential" (with H. Wang) , Journal
of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience,
7, 738-755, 2010 (PDF)
- "Mathematical studies
and simulations of nematic liquid crystal
polymers and nanocomposites" (with M.G. Forest and H. Wang), Journal of Computational and
Theoretical Nanoscience, 7, 645-660, 2010 (PDF)
- "Observability
of viscoelastic fluids" (with W. Kang, A. Krener and H. Wang), Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid
Mechanics, 165, 425-434, 2010 (PDF)
- "Efficiency of
inhomogeneous thermoelectric generators", Applied Mathematical Sciences,
Vol. 4 (no. 11), 505-514, 2010 (PDF)
- "Sheared nematic liquid crystal polymer monolayers"
(with H. Wang and M.
G. Forest),
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B , 11 (2),
497-517, 2009 (PDF)
- " Extendability
of equilibria of nematic
polymers" (with H. Wang), Abstract and Applied Analysis ,Vol.
2008, Article ID 854725, 2008 (PDF)
- "Stokes efficiency of
molecular motor-cargo systems" (with H. Wang), Abstract and
Applied Analysis ,Vol. 2008, Article ID 241738, 2008 (PDF)
- "Controllability of non-newtonian fluids under homogeneous extensional
flow" (with L. Wilson, W. Kang and
H. Wang), Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 2 (no. 43),
2145-2156, 2008 (PDF).
- "Multiple branches of
ordered states of polymer ensembles with the Onsager excluded volume
potential" (with H. Wang), Physics Letters A, 372, 3423-3428,
2008 (PDF)
- "Homogeneous flow field
effect on the control of Maxwell materials" (with W.
Kang, A. Krener and H. Wang), Journal of Non-Newtonian
Fluid Mechanics, 150, 104-115, 2008 (PDF)
- "Exact solution of a
constrained optimization problem in thermoelectric cooling" (with H.
Wang), Applied Mathematical Sciences , 2(4), 177-186, 2008 (PDF).
- "Steady states and their
stability of homogeneous, rigid, extended nematic
polymers under imposed magnetic fields" (with G. Ji,
Q. Wang, P. Zhang and H. Wang), Communications in Mathematical Sciences,
5(4), 917-950, 2007 (PDF)
- "Elongational
perturbations on nematic liquid crystal polymers
under a weak shear" (with H. Wang), Physics of Fluids, 19,
103107, 2007 (PDF).
- "Monotonicity
of a key function arised in studies of nematic liquid crystal polymers" (with H. Wang), Abstract
and Applied Analysis, Vol. 2007, Article ID 76209, 7 pages, 2007 (PDF).
- "Asymptotic study on the
extendability of equilibria
of nematic polymers" (with H. Wang), International
Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 2 (no. 21),
1009-1023, 2007 (PDF).
- "Anchoring-induced
texture and shear banding of nematic polymers in
shear cells" (with M.G.
Forest and Q. Wang),
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, Vol. 8 (no. 3),
707-733, 2007 (PDF).
- "On the equilibria of the extended nematic
polymers under elongational flow" (with L.
Wilson and H. Wang), Abstract and Applied Analysis, Vol. 2007,
Article ID 36267, 15 pages, 2007 (PDF).
- "Nonparallel solutions
of extended nematic polymers under an external
field" (with H. Wang and Q. Wang), Discrete and Continuous
Dynamical Systems-Series B, 7(4), 907-929, 2007 (PDF).
- "Steady states and
dynamics of 2-D nematic polymers driven by an
imposed weak shear" (with H. Wang), Communications in Mathematical
Sciences, 5(1), 113-132, 2007 (PDF).
- "Characterization of
stable kinetic equilibria of rigid, dipolar rod
ensembles for coupled dipole-dipole and Maier-Saupe
potentials" (with H. Wang, Q. Wang and M.G. Forest),
Nonlinearity, 20, 277-297, 2007 (PDF).
- "Nematic
liquids in weak capillary Poiseuille flow:
structure scaling laws and effective conductivity implications" (with
M.G. Forest), International Journal
of Numerical Analysis and Modeling , 4, 460-477, 2007 (PDF).
- "Study of phase
transition in homogeneous, rigid extended nematics
and magnetic suspensions using an order-reduction method" (with G. Ji, Q. Wang and P. Zhang), Physics of Fluids,
18, 123103, 2006 (PDF).
- "On weak plane Couette and Poiseuille flows
of rigid rod and platelet ensembles" (with Z. Cui, M.G. Forest
and Q. Wang), SIAM
J. Appl. Math. , 66 (4), 1227-1260, 2006 (PDF).
- "Anchoring distortions
coupled with plane Couette & Poiseuille flows of nematic
polymers in viscous solvents: morphology in molecular orientation, stress
& flow" (with M.
G. Forest),
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, 6 (2), 407-425,
2006 (PDF).
- "Steady state solutions
of the Smoluchowski equation for nematic polymers under imposed fields" (with Q.
Wang and S. Sircar),
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 3 (4), 605-620, 2005 (PDF).
- "A new proof on axisymmetric equilibria of a
three-dimensional Smoluchowski equation"
(with H. Wang, M.G.
Forest and Q. Wang) Nonlinearity ,18, 2815-2825, 2005 (PDF).
- "A numerical study of
unsteady, thermal, glass fiber drawing processes" (with M. G. Forest),
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 3(1),27-45,2005
(PDF).
- "Extension-enhanced
conductivity of liquid crystalline polymer nano-composites"
(with M.G. Forest, X. Zheng, Q. Wang, and R.
Lipton), Macromolecular Symposia,228,
81-89, 2005
(PDF).
- "Structure scaling
properties of confined nematic polymers in plane
Couette cells: The weak flow limit" (with M. G. Forest,
Q. Wang and R. Zhou), Journal of Rheology,
48(1), 175-192, 2004 (PDF).
- " Slender vortex
motion" (with H. Wang), Recent Res. Devel.
Fluid Dynamics, 4, 159-179, 2003 (PDF).
- "Computational study of
a weakly compressible mixing barrier in low Prandtl
number, strongly stratified fluids" (with R. M. McLaughlin and M. G. Forest),
Physics of Fluids, 15 (10), 2872-2885, 2003 (PDF).
- "Unsteady analyses of
thermal glass fibre drawing processes"
(with M. G. Forest),
European Journal of Applied Mathematics 12, 479-496, 2001 (PDF).
- "Non-Newtonian viscous
oscillating free surface jets, and a new strain-rate dependent viscosity
form for flows experiencing low strain rates" (with S. E. Bechtel, M.
G. Forest, N. T. Youssef and K. W. Koelling), Rheol.
Acta 40, 373-383, 2001 (PDF).
- "Methods for the exact
construction of mesoscale spatial structures in
liquid crystal polymers" (with M. G. Forest and Q. Wang), Physica D 152-153, 288-309, 2001
(PDF).
- "On the flow-phase
diagram for discotic liquid crystals in uniaxial extension and compression" (with M. G. Forest
and Q. Wang), Liquid Crystals 28(5), 717-720, 2001 (PDF).
- "Exact banded patterns
from a Doi-Marrucci-Greco
model of nematic liquid crystal
polymers"(with M.G.
Forest and Q. Wang),
Physical Review E 61(6), 6655-6662, 2000 (PDF).
- "Homogeneous biaxial
patterns and director instabilities of liquid crystal polymers in axial
and planar elongation" (with M.G. Forest
and Q. Wang), Physics of Fluids 12(3), 490-498, 2000 (PDF).
- "Thermotropic
liquid crystalline polymer fibers"(with M.G. Forest
and Q. Wang), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 60(4), 1177-1204,
2000 (PDF).
- "Nonhomogeneous
patterns with core defects in elongational flows
of liquid crystal polymers" (with M.G. Forest
and Q. Wang), Journal of Rheology, 43(6),
1573-1582, 1999 (PDF).
- "A model study of the
spinning of thermotropic liquid crystalline
polymers: Fiber performance predictions and bounds on throughput"
(with M.G. Forest and Q. Wang), Advances in
Polymer Technology, 18(4), 314-335, 1999 (PDF).
- "Dynamics of free
surface and pure elongational flows of liquid
crystalline polymers" (with Q. Wang and M.G. Forest), in Rheology and Fluid Mechanics of Nonlinear
Materials, edited by D.A. Siginer and D. DeKee, FEB-Vol 246, MD-Vol 81, ASME New York, 101-114, 1998.
- "Free surface viscoelastic and liquid crystalline polymer fibers and
jets" (with S. E. Bechtel, M. G. Forest and Q. Wang), in
Advances in the Flow and Rheology of
Non-Newtonian Fluids, edited by D. A. Siginer,
D. DeKee and R. P. Chabra,
Elsevier, 1998 (PDF).
- "The effect of dynamic
surface tension on the oscillation of slender elliptical Newtonian
jets" (with S. E. Bechtel, M.
G. Forest
and N. T. Youssef), J. Appl. Mech. 65
(3), 694-704, 1998 (PDF).
- "On the motion of
slender vortex filaments", Physics of Fluids. 9 (4), 970-981,
1997 (PDF).



