Concepts of mesoscopic continuum physics with application to biaxial liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/JNETDY.2000.011zbMath0981.76007MaRDI QIDQ1585922

Wolfgang Muschik, Christina Papenfuss, Harald Ehrentraut

Publication date: 18 March 2002

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

balance equationsliquid crystals of biaxial moleculeslocal distribution functionmesoscopic variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Thermodynamics of continua (80A17) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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