Biaxiality at the isotropic-nematic interface with planar anchoring

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

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kamil, S M ^a   Bhattacharjee, A K ^a   Adhikari, R ^a   Menon, Gautam I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAXIALITY; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH; GINZBURG-LANDAU; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC INTERFACE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SPECTRAL COLLOCATION;

WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449085152     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041705     Document Type: Article

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