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Polymers

Formation of vortex flows in thin nematic cells

A. V. Zakharov, A. A. Vakulenko

Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Abstract: The director field reorientation and the formation of steady vortex flows in doubly and obliquely oriented thin liquid-crystal cells under the temperature gradient have been theoretically described within the nonlinear generalization of the classical Ericksen-Leslie theory for describing liquid crystal hydrodynamics. This generalization allowing the consideration of thermomechanical contributions to the shear stress and to the entropy balance equation has made it possible to describe the formation of a steady two-vortex flow in doubly oriented liquid-crystal cells.

Received: 21.06.2011
Accepted: 17.10.2011

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2012, 54:4, 849–858

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