Nonlinear dissipative effects in the hydrodynamics of liquid crystals
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 25 (2) , 995-999
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.25.995
Abstract
The influence of dissipative effects on the nonlinear hydrodynamic equations of various types of liquid crystals like nematics, cholesterics, smectics , , is investigated. An experiment for uniaxial nematics is proposed which allows the detection of one group of the novel terms presented. It is shown that the viscous nonlinearities in the stress tensor of uniaxial nematics discussed by Moritz and Franklin do not exist.
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