Giupponi, G.; Coveney, P.V. - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 72 (2006) 2, pp. 124-127
We use a lattice-Boltzmann (LB) kinetic scheme for modelling amphiphilic mixtures to impose Couette flow on self-assembled gyroid mesophase. We report evidence of non-Newtonian behaviour (“shear thinning”) and we show that the particular lack of inversion symmetry which characterizes the...