Geometry and dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal in a uniform shear flow

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/7/312zbMath0965.82025OpenAlexW1985673997MaRDI QIDQ2716239

E. Vicente Alonso, D. R. J. Chillingworth, Adam A. Wheeler

Publication date: 6 June 2001

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/34/7/312

zbMATH Keywords

periodic solutionsshear flowequilibriaLandau-de Gennes free-energy function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05)

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