Instabilities of a Moving Nematic-Isotropic Interface
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (22) , 2318-2321
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.2318
Abstract
A moving nematic-isotropic interface is subject to several instabilities. Some are traceable to phenomena typical of liquid crystals; others are tentatively identified with a Mullins-Sekerka instability.Keywords
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