Kickback in nematic liquid crystals

Costa, Fernando Pestana da; Grinfeld, Michael; Langer, Mathias; Mottram, Nigel J.; Pinto, João Teixeira

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Costa, Fernando Pestana da

Abstract(s)

We describe a nonlocal linear partial differential equation arising in the analysis of dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal. We confirm that it accounts for the kickback phenomenon by decoupling the director dynamics from the flow. We also analyse some of the mathematical properties of the decoupled director equation.

Keywords

Nematic liquid crystals Kickback Singular perturbations Nonlocal operators

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/2048

Citation

Costa, Fernando Pestana da [et al.] - Kickback in nematic liquid crystals. "Quarterly of Applied Mathematics" [Em linha]. ISSN 0033-569X (Print) 1552-4405 (Online). Vol. 70, nº 1 (March 2012), p. 99-110