Computer simulation of liquid crystals
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Computer simulation of liquid crystals
A review is presented of molecular and mesoscopic computer simulations of liquid crystalline systems. Molecular simulation approaches applied to such systems are described and the key findings for bulk phase behaviour are reported. Following this, recently developed lattice Boltzmann (LB) approaches to the mesoscale modelling of nemato-dynamics are reviewed. The article concludes with a discuss...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0953-8984,1361-648X
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/8/47/041