Traveling-wave relaxation in elongated liquid crystal cells

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Self, R H ^a   Please, C P ^a   Sluckin, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0009907131     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.60.R5029     Document Type: Article

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1. See, e.g., Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries Formed by Polymer and Porous Networks, edited by G.P. Crawford and S. Žumer (Taylor and Francis, London, 1996).
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5. The effect of a surface viscosity, as employed, e.g., by J. Stelzer, R. Hirning, and H.-R. Trebin, J. Appl. Phys. 74, 6046 (1993) can easily be included.
6. See, e.g., D. Zwillinger, Handbook of Differential Equations (Academic Press, London, 1992).
7. R.H. Self, Ph.D. thesis, University of Southampton, UK, 1998 (unpublished).