Nematic liquid-crystal director configuration for general elastic coefficients

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

Volumn 62, Issue 6 B, 2000, Pages 8830-8833

  Schröder, Elsebeth ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HYDROELASTICITY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

ELASTIC COEFFICIENTS; PLANAR FREEDERICKSZ TRANSITION (PFT);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034497980     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.8830     Document Type: Article

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