On a curvature surface energy for nematic liquid crystals

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-52

  Faetti, Sandro ^a   Virga, Epifanio G ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELASTIC MODULI; FUNCTIONS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; TENSORS; VECTORS;

BULK FREE ENERGY DENSITY; QUADRATIC FUNCTION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031261330     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002050050059     Document Type: Article

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