Hydrodynamics of polar liquid crystals

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

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Kung, William ^a,b   Cristina Marchetti, M ^a,b   Saunders, Karl ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT VECTOR; POISSON-BRACKET FORMALISM; POLAR LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FREE ENERGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; POISSON EQUATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33645525769     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.031708     Document Type: Article

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