Hard biaxial ellipsoids revisited: Numerical results

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 255, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-45

  McBride, Carl ^a   Lomba, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hard biaxial ellipsoids; Liquid crystals; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DISCOTIC PHASE; HARD BIAXIAL ELLIPSOIDS; ISOTROPIC PHASE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 34248579951     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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