Nonlinear effects in the electrohydrodynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 35 (7) , 3122-3127
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.35.3122
Abstract
We study the influence of nonlinear effects on the electrohydrodynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals. To measure a novel reversible nonlinear coupling between an electric field, distortions of the director, and the stress tensor, we suggest an experimental setup and predict the occurrence of a flow in an initially static configuration. We show that the dissipative effects proposed by R. S.Akopyan and B. Ya. Zeldovich [Sov. Phys.—JETP 60, 953 (1985)] do not exist.Keywords
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