Collisionless shock resolution in nematic liquid crystals

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Assanto, Gaetano ^a   Marchant, T R ^b   Smyth, Noel F ^c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SHOCK WAVES;

2+1 DIMENSIONAL; A TRAINS; CIRCULAR SYMMETRIES; COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITIES; NON LOCALITIES; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SEMIANALYTICAL; SEMIANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; SEMIANALYTICAL THEORIES; SOLITARY WAVES; SPATIAL PROFILES; UNDULAR BORES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 57349151690     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063808     Document Type: Article

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