Atkin, R.J. and Stewart, I.W. (2002) Stability of domain walls in cylindrical layers of smectic C liquid crystals. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 55 (2). pp. 163-177. ISSN 0033-5614
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The stability of the static domain wall reported by Atkin and Stewart for an infinite sample of concentric, cylindrical layers of smectic C liquid crystals arranged with a fixed inner radius a > 0 is considered. A criterion is derived as a test for stability. Various estimates on the relative magnitudes of the smectic elastic constants lead to physically meaningful stability results. The occurrence of such a wall indicates the relative magnitudes of the combinations of constants A12 ? A21 and A12 andplus; A21 andplus; 2A11 and, in a special case, can indicate when A12 andap; A21.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 2056 |
| Keywords: | smectics, liquid crystals, mechanics, applied mathematics, Mathematics |
| Subjects: | Science > Mathematics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2007 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 15:25 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/2056 |
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