Small surface pretilt strikingly affects the director profile during poiseuille flow of a nematic liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Holmes, C J ^a   Cornford, S L ^b   Sambles, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDING SURFACES; CONOSCOPY; DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS; NUMERICAL MODELING; POISEUILLE FLOW; PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOWS; PRETILT;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953482522     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.248301     Document Type: Article

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