Dynamics of defect motion in nematic liquid crystal flow: Modeling and numerical simulation

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1184-1198

  Liu, Chun ^a   Shen, Jie ^b   Yang, Xiaofeng ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Defect motion; Hedgehog antihedgehog; Liquid crystal; Navier Stokes; Spectral Galerkin method

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849091264     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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