Hydrodynamics of pair-annihilating disclinations in SmC films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Svensek, D ^a   Zumer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; TENSORS; THIN FILMS; VORTEX FLOW;

ANNIHILATION; HYDRODYNAMIC FLOW; NONHYDRODYNAMICS TREATMENT; STRESS TENSOR;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037864155     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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