Liquid Flow 51 Bibliography

In addition to the bibliographies about liquid crystals in this volume, we take note of the work of J.-P. Diaz, [6], [7], [8] which deals with flows where the variation of the optical axis is planar or small. In static equilibrium, where the optical axis alone is the principal kinematic variable, the resulting equations have analogies in the study of harmonic mappings, a viewpoint which should not be overlooked. 

The last decade of the twentieth century has generally seen accelerated development in the area of cross-flow membrane microfiltration, as can be seen in a selection of research topics in the Bibliography. This is now a generally accepted term for a separation process for the removal of dispersed matters in sizes ranging from 0.05 to 10 pm from a liquid stream by forcing the liquid through a porous membrane. 

Cross-flow microfiltration of dispersions is encountered in a wide variety of engineering applications, such as solid-liquid separation, water purification, and drilling operations. The selection of literature references in the Bibliography is broadly classified into five themes (this is inevitably somewhat biased by the author s interests) ... 

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