Drops of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/BF00251555zbMath0688.76074OpenAlexW4237909848MaRDI QIDQ1264079

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

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

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