Flow alignment in nematic liquid crystals in flows with cylindrical symmetry

zbMath1021.35028MaRDI QIDQ1848276

Rein van der Hout

Publication date: 21 October 2003

Published in: Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalnematic liquid crystaldirector fieldsteady cylindrical flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Liquid crystals (76A15) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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