Finite-element modeling of liquid-crystal hydrodynamics with a variable degree of order

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1575-1582

  James, Richard ^a   Willman, Eero ^a   Fernández, F Anibal ^a   Day, Sally E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Liquid crystal (LC) modeling; Variable order parameter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LIQUID-CRYSTAL HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL MODELING; VARIABLE ORDER PARAMETER;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745686660     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2006.876039     Document Type: Article

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