Orientational transition in nematic liquid crystals under oscillatory Poiseuille flow
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Orientational transition in nematic liquid crystals under oscillatory Poiseuille flow
We investigate the orientational behaviour of a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal subjected to an oscillatory plane Poiseuille flow produced by an alternating pressure gradient. For small pressure amplitudes the director oscillates within the flow plane around the initial homeotropic position, whereas for higher amplitudes a spatially homogeneous transition to out-of-plane director...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00336-3