Shape and director-field transformation of tactoids

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

Volumn 68, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages

  Prinsen, Peter ^a   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPECT RATIO; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; NUCLEATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SURFACE TENSION;

DIRECTOR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; NUCLEATION RATE; TACTOIDS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 42749098386     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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