Techniques for the visualization of topological defect behavior in nematic liquid crystals

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1323-1328

  Slavin, Vadim A ^a   Pelcovits, Robert A ^a   Loriot, George ^a   Callan Jones, Andrew ^a   Laidlaw, David H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Case studies; Liquid crystals; Molecular modeling; Tensor visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DATA REDUCTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; TENSORS; VISUALIZATION;

COLORED INTEGRAL CURVES; MOLECULAR MODELING; TENSOR VISUALIZATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33845604648     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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