Chevron patterns in liquid crystal flows

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 201-224

  Calderer, M Carme ^a   Mukherjee, Bagisa ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Layers; Liquid crystal; Shear flow; Singular perturbations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001462744     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-2789(96)00051-6     Document Type: Article

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