Elastic director vibrations in nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1017/S0956792514000345MaRDI QIDQ4594530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Turzi

Publication date 24 November 2017

Published in European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3979

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Anisotropy in solid mechanics (74E10)

Abstract: Recently Biscari, DiCarlo and Turzi ["Anisotropic wave propagation in nematic liquid crystals", to appear (arXiv:1311.1802)] proposed a theory for nematoacustics which models nematic liquid crystals as nematic elastomers with molecular relaxation. Here, we extend the analysis of this theory to account for the director motion possibly induced by the propagation of a sound wave. We find that the director vibration is related to the - usually small - anisotropy of the molecular distribution, thus providing a justification to the relative high ultrasonic intensities required to observe non-negligible acousto-optic responses.

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