A nonlinear analysis of thermal instabilities in nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1515/JNET.1984.9.2.107zbMATH Open0596.76054OpenAlexW2074278780MaRDI QIDQ1079062FDOQ1079062

Authors: D. A. Hodson, P. J. Barratt, David Sloan 

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/jnet.1984.9.2.107

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationnonlinear analysisequilibrium stateChebyshev collocationsolvability conditionBoussinesq approximationhomeotropic probleminfinite set of linear inhomogeneous problemslinear homogeneous eigenvalue problemlinear theory predictionperturbative expansion methodstrong anchoring' boundary conditionsthermal convective instabilitiesthin layers of nematic liquid crystaltwo large, horizontal, flat platestwo-dimensional, stationary solutionsvertical thermal gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

Cites Work

• Some constitutive equations for liquid crystals
• Accurate solution of the Orr–Sommerfeld stability equation
• An Algorithm for Generalized Matrix Eigenvalue Problems
• On the non-linear mechanics of wave disturbances in stable and unstable parallel flows Part 1. The basic behaviour in plane Poiseuille flow

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