Exact banded patterns from a Doi-Marrucci-Greco model of nematic liquid crystal polymers

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

Volumn 61, Issue 6 B, 2000, Pages 6655-6662

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wang, Qi ^a,b   Zhou, Hong ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TENSORS; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

DOI-MARRUCCI-GRECO MODEL; HOMOGENEOUS EQUILIBRIUM PHASES; ROTATIONAL MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION; TENSOR ORIENTATION EQUATION;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

BANDED STRUCTURES; HOMOGENEOUS PHASIS; INTENSITY PATTERNS; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; PATTERN FORMATION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TENSOR ORIENTATION;

EID: 0034207380     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.6655     Document Type: Article

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