Eric P. Choate's Research Page I'm usually looking for something. Often it is scholarly in nature.

My research has centered on modeling the orientation of nematic liquid crystal polymers; how this orientation influences and is influenced by a flow field, electromagnetic field, and/or anchoring conditions at a boundary; and how the rheological properties of such a fluid depend on the orientation. I did my Ph.D. work at the University of North Carolina under the direction of Greg Forest as part of the Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Materials research group.

A summary of my research can be found here.

Publications

1. Eric P. Choate, M. Gregory Forest, Lili Ju, Effects of strong anchoring on the dynamic moduli of heterogeneous nematic polymers II: Oblique Anchoring, accepted, Rheologica Acta.
2. Eric P. Choate, M. Gregory Forest, Lingxing Yao, Xiaoyu Zheng, Ruhai Zhou, A simple model for non-topological defects in sheard nematic polymer monodomains, accepted, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Nanosciences.
3. Eric P. Choate, M. Gregory Forest, Zhenlu Cui, Lili Ju, Effects of Director Angle Anchoring Conditions on the Dynamic Moduli of Heterogenous Nematic Polymers, Proceedings of the XVth International Congress on Rheology, pp. 481-483 (2008).
4. Eric P. Choate, Zhenlu Cui, M. Gregory Forest, Effects of strong anchoring on the dynamic moduli of heterogeneous nematic polymers, Rheologica Acta, 47, 223-236 (2008). [preprint pdf | original publication available from Rheologica Acta]
5. Eric P. Choate, M. Gregory Forest, A classical problem revisited: rheology of nematic polymer monodomains in small amplitude oscillatory shear, Rheologica Acta, 46, 83-94 (2006). [preprint pdf | original publication available from Rheologica Acta]
6. M. Gregory Forest, Qi Wang, Ruhai Zhou, Eric P. Choate, Monodomain response of arbitrary aspect ratio polymers in general linear planar flows, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 118, 17-31 (2004). [pdf]