The stability of nematic liquid crystals under crossed electric and magnetic fields

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 23-28

  Stewart, I W ^a   Faulkner, T R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nematic liquid crystals; Stability; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040432806     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(99)00203-7     Document Type: Article

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