Convection instabilities in nematic liquid crystals

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 515-541

  Kramer, Lorenz ^a   Pesch, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ginsburg Landau equations; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544291532     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.27.1.515     Document Type: Article

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