The effect of non-uniform temperature gradients on thermal instabilities in nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/jnet.1985.10.3.171zbMath0575.76044OpenAlexW2027555469MaRDI QIDQ1064212

C. W. Coles, D. A. Hodson, P. J. Barratt

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1985.10.3.171

zbMATH Keywords

continuum theorynon-uniform temperature gradienthomeotropic configurationliquid crystal between two horizontal platesthin sample of nematic liquid crystalvariational method of solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Cites Work

• A nonlinear analysis of thermal instabilities in nematic liquid crystals
• Some constitutive equations for liquid crystals
• A numerical investigation into thermal instabilities in homeotropic nematics heated from below
• The onset of transient convective instability
• Thermal instability in a horizontal fluid layer: effect of boundary conditions and non-linear temperature profile
• The instability of a fluid layer with time-dependent heating

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