Hydrodynamics of Liquid Crystals
- 1 October 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 2 (4) , 1558-1562
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.2.1558
Abstract
A consistent set of hydrodynamic equations for liquid crystals is derived from the necessary conservation laws and the requirements of Galilean invariance. In the stationary case, the equations reduce to the Oseen-Frank hydrostatic theory. The equations should be useful in discussing the hydrodynamics of cholesteric and smectic crystals. Linear dissipative effects are also considered.Keywords
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