Direct observation of a twist mode in electroconvection

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

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 6780-6786

  Dennin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROLYTES; HEAT CONVECTION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

ELECTROCONVECTION; HOPF BIFURCATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034318834     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.6780     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. For reviews of pattern formation, see M. C. Cross and P. C. Hohenberg, Rev. Mod. Phys. 65, 851 (1993)
2. Rev. Mod. Phys.J. P. Gollub and J. S. Langer, 71, s396 (1999).
3. For a recent review of pattern formation in liquid crystals, see A. Buka and L. Kramer, Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996).
4. Review articles on electroconvection can be found in I. Rehberg, B. L. Winkler, M. de la Torre Juárez, S. Rasenat, and W. Schöpf, Festkoerperprobleme 29, 35 (1989)
5. S. Kai and W. Zimmermann, Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 99, 458 (1989)
6. L. Kramer and W. Pesch, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 27, 515 (1995).
7. P. G. de Gennes, The Physics of Liquid Crystals (Claredon Press, Oxford, 1974)
8. S. Chandrasekhar, Liquid Crystals (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1992).
9. R. P. Twitchell and E. F. Carr, J. Chem. Phys. 46, 2765 (1967).
10. W. Helfrich, J. Chem. Phys. 51, 4092 (1969).
11. E. Bodenschatz, W. Zimmermann, and L. Kramer, J. Phys. (France) 49, 1875 (1988)
12. L. Kramer, E. Bodenschatz, W. Pesch, W. Thom, and W. Zimmermann, Liq. Cryst. 5, 699 (1989).
13. W. Zimmermann, in Nematics: Mathematical and Physical Aspects, edited by J.-M. Coron, J. M. Ghidaglia, and F. Helein, Vol. 332 of NATO Advanced Studies Institute Series C: Mathematical & Physical Sciences (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1991), p. 401.
14. I. Rehberg, S. Rasenat, J. Fineberg, M. de la Torre Juárez, and V. Steinberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2449 (1988).
15. I. Rehberg, S. Rasenat, and V. Steinberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 756 (1989).
16. E. Plaut, W. Decker, A. G. Rossberg, L. Kramer, W. Pesch, A. Belaidi, and R. Ribotta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2367 (1997).
17. S. Rudroff, H. Zhao, L. Kramer, and I. Rehberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5144 (1998).
18. M. Treiber and L. Kramer, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 261, 311 (1995).
19. M. Dennin, M. Treiber, L. Kramer, G. Ahlers, and D. S. Cannell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 319 (1996).
20. E. Plaut and W. Pesch, Phys. Rev. E 59, 1747 (1999).
21. E. Plaut and R. Ribotta, Eur. Phys. J. B 5, 265 (1998).
22. M. Dennin, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1995 (unpublished).
23. M. Dennin, G. Ahlers, and D. S. Cannell, Science 272, 388 (1996).
24. M. Dennin, G. Ahlers, and D. S. Cannell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2475 (1996).
25. M. Treiber and L. Kramer, Phys. Rev. E 58, 1973 (1998).
26. M. Dennin, D. S. Cannell, and G. Ahlers, Phys. Rev. E 57, 638 (1998).
27. E. Plaut, L. Pastur, and R. Ribotta, Eur. Phys. J. B 5, 283 (1998).
28. U. Finkenzeller, T. Geelhaar, G. Weber, and L. Pohl, Liq. Cryst. 5, 313 (1989).
29. E.H.C. CO., Ltd., 1164 Hino, Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan.
30. S. Rasenat, G. Hartung, B. L. Winkler, and I. Rehberg, Exp. Fluids 7, 412 (1989).
31. H. Amm, R. Stannarius, and A. G. Rossberg, Physica D 126, 171 (1999).
32. E. Plaut (private communication).