Drops of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/BF00251555zbMATH Open0688.76074OpenAlexW4237909848MaRDI QIDQ1264079FDOQ1264079

Authors: Epifanio G. Virga 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00251555

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zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium shapesa drop of nematic liquid crystalisotropic fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena (76A99)

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