Director relaxation in a nematic liquid crystal

M. Daniel and K. Gnanasekaran

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2005, vol. 346, issue 3, 250-260

Abstract: 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 Schrödinger-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.

Keywords: Neumatic liquid crystal; Director dynamics; Splay-bend field (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.08.015

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