Hydrodynamic effects in the optically in
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R.F. RodrΓguez; P. Ortega; R. DΓaz-Uribe
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We present a model to describe the first stages of the reorientation process of a nematic liquid crystal under the action of an obliquely incident optical field. The presence of hydrodynamic backflows associated with the reorientation in both, a homeotropic and a planar geometry, is explicitly taken