Steady states and their stability of homogeneous, rigid, extended nematic polymers under imposed magnetic fields

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 917-950

  Ji, Guanghua ^a,b   Wang, Qi ^c,d   Zhang, Pingwen ^a   Wang, Hongyun ^e   Zhou, Hong ^f  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^f NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Electric field; Kinetic theory; Magnetic field; Nematic liquid crystal; Phase transition; Polarity; Polymers; Stability; Steady state

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049083980     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2007.v5.n4.a10     Document Type: Article

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