Dynamic theory for incompressible smectic-A liquid crystals: Existence and regularity

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 591-608

  Liu, Chun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Navier Stokes equations; Smectic A liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034391437     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2000.6.591     Document Type: Article

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