Growth regimes in phase ordering transformations

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 623-648

  Wincure, Benjamin ^a   Rey, Alejandro D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interfacial defect nucleation; Liquid crystal phase ordering; Moving interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348868912     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2007.8.623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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