Numerical Study of the Growth of the Cholesteric Finger Pattern

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2713-2716

  Nagaya, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Hikita, Yasuhiro ^a   Orihara, Hiroshi ^a   Ishibashi, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finger pattern; Liquid crystals; Pattern formation; Phase transition; Simulation; Tip splitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030504818     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.65.2713     Document Type: Article

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