Two transitions in tangentially anchored nematic droplets

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/19/16/019zbMath0661.76007OpenAlexW2054193805MaRDI QIDQ3811883

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Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/340439528ca387a86142c0dd1d6dc57c96050922

zbMATH Keywords

total elastic energySturm- Liouville problembipolar configurationexistence of a twisted bipolar configurationFrank energylinearization of the Euler-Lagrange equationnematic dropletsurface contributiontangential anchoringtransitions between static director configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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