Transformation from walls to disclination lines: Statics and dynamics of the pincement transition

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  De Lózar, Alberto ^a   Schöpf, Wolfgang ^a   Rehberg, Ingo ^a   Svenšek, Daniel ^a,b   Kramer, Lorenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCLINATION SOLUTIONS; FRONT VELOCITY; NEMATIC TENSOR; PINCEMENT TRANSITION;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 28844455026     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.051713     Document Type: Article

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