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Director relaxation in a nematic liquid crystal

✍ Scribed by M. Daniel; K. Gnanasekaran

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
387 KB
Volume
346
Category
Article
ISSN
0378-4371

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✦ Synopsis

Director dynamics in a nematic liquid crystal is studied without imposing the one constant approximation. New field equations in the form of Ginzburg-Landau and Schro¨dinger-type equations have been derived for the rotation and divergence of the director field in terms of splay-bend mode and solved. The results of the director dynamics exhibit relaxation behaviour governed by bow, kink and hole-type deformations.

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