Local elastic stability for nematic liquid crystals

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1 1, 2004, Pages

  Rosso, Riccardo ^a   Virga, Epifanio G ^a   Kralj, Samo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; GRAPH THEORY; GROUND STATE; INTEGRATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STABILITY CRITERIA; TENSORS; VECTORS;

ELASTIC CONSTANT; ELASTIC STABILITY; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 37649030706     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011710     Document Type: Article

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