Characterization of stable kinetic equilibria of rigid, dipolar rod ensembles for coupled dipole–dipole and Maier–Saupe potentials

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/20/2/003zbMath1117.35306OpenAlexW2001419573MaRDI QIDQ5296478

M. Gregory Forest, Hongyun Wang, Qi Wang, Hong Zhou

Publication date: 1 August 2007

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/20/2/003

zbMATH Keywords

Smoluchowski equationunstable non-axisymmetric equilibria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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