A Continuum Theory of Chiral Smectic C Liquid Crystals

DOI10.1137/070696477zbMath1170.35497OpenAlexW2000283638MaRDI QIDQ3631943

M. Carme Calderer, Sookyung Joo

Publication date: 22 June 2009

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d1f5da0efb3013d9720278ea9d848d311b445de0

zbMATH Keywords

continuum theorytraveling wavesmectic liquid crystalsferroelectric liquid crystalsmolecular reorientation dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Thermodynamics of continua (80A17) Liquid crystals (76A15) Soliton equations (35Q51)

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