Hydrodynamics of domain growth in nematic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 67, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages

  Tóth, Géza ^a   Denniston, Colin ^b   Yeomans, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL LATTICES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

BERIS-EDWARDS EQUATIONS OF MOTION; CYLIDRICAL DOMAIN; LATTICE BOLTZMANN APPROACH;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749101429     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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