Consistent numerical evaluation of the anchoring energy of a grooved surface

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

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Fukuda, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Yoneya, Makoto ^a,b   Yokoyama, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

ANCHORING ENERGIES; ANGLE DEPENDENCES; AZIMUTHAL ANCHORING ENERGIES; AZIMUTHAL ANGLES; ELASTIC DISTORTIONS; FRANK ELASTIC ENERGIES; GROOVED SURFACES; NEMATIC CELLS; NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS; NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SINUSOIDAL FUNCTIONS; SQUARE PATTERNS; SURFACE ELASTIC CONSTANTS; SURFACE HEIGHTS; SURFACE SLOPES; SURFACE-ANCHORING; TOTAL ENERGIES; WAVE VECTORS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 59949085043     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.011705     Document Type: Article

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