Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-0169-7 (ISBN)
This book is the first attempt to present together complementary approaches to the investigations of topological defects in liquid crystals using theory, experiments and computer simulations.
1 Classification of defects in liquid crystals.- 2 Alignment tensor versus director description in nematic liquid crystals.- 3 Liquid crystal colloidal dispersions.- 4 Computer simulations and defects in confined liquid crystal lattice models.- 5 Molecular simulations and theory of planar interfaces and defects in nematic liquid crystals.- 6 Topological defect behavior in a quenched nematic liquid crystal.- 7 Restoring forces on nematic disclinations.- 8 Challenges in the dynamics of point defects.- 9 Numerical simulation of elastic anisotropy in nematic liquid crystalline polymers.- 10 Computer Simulations and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of Structures in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.- 11 Defects and Undulation in Layered Liquid Crystals.- 12 Liquid crystals under shear: role of defects.- 13 Numerical simulation of defects in quasicrystals.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2001 |
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Reihe/Serie | NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ; 43 |
Zusatzinfo | XV, 344 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4020-0169-X / 140200169X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-0169-7 / 9781402001697 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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