Kickback in nematic liquid crystals

We describe a nonlocal linear partial differential equation arising in the analysis of dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal. We confirm that it accounts for the kickback phenomenon by decoupling the director dynamics from the flow. We also analyse some of the mathematical properties of the decoupled...

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Main Author: Costa, Fernando Pestana da (author)
Other Authors: Grinfeld, Michael (author), Langer, Mathias (author), Mottram, Nigel J. (author), Pinto, João Teixeira (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Nematic liquid crystals
Kickback
Singular perturbations
Nonlocal operators
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/2048
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorioaberto.uab.pt:10400.2/2048

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/2048

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