Characterization of stable kinetic equilibria of rigid, dipolar rod ensembles for coupled dipole-dipole and Maier-Saupe potentials

Nonlinearity

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-297

  Zhou, Hong ^a   Wang, Hongyun ^b   Wang, Qi ^c,e   Gregory Forest, M ^d  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 33947620578     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: 13616544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/20/2/003     Document Type: Article

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