Drops of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/BF00251555MaRDI QIDQ1264079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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