Variational Theories for Liquid Crystals

ISBN-13: 9780412398803 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 376 str.

E. G. Virga; Epifanio G. Virga

Opis

Two variational theories of liquid crystals are explained in this book: the first, presented by Zocher, Oseen and Frank, is classical; the other, put forward by Ericksen, is new in its formulation, although it has been anticipated in the literature of the past 20 years. This book should be of interest to applied maths researchers into crystal theory, materials, fluid dynamics etc.

Recenzje

"This book is a comprehensive and essentially self-contained presentation of the mathematical models which are curretly used in the description of liquid crystals."
-Meccanic a

Spis treści

1. Physical background 2. Mathematical preliminaries 3. The classical theory 4. Instabilities 5. Drops 6. The new theory

O autorze

Virga\, E.G.