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Nematics :

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Mathematical and Physical Aspects Proceeding of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Defects, Singularities and Patterns in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Mathematical and Physical Aspects Orsay, France May 28-June 1, 1990

edited by Jean-Michel Coron, Jean-Michel Ghidaglia, Frédéric Hélein.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1991

(448 pages)

NATO ASI series., Series C,, Mathematical and physical sciences ;, 332.

An Energy-Decreasing Algorithm for Harmonic Maps.- A Cohomological Criterion for Density of Smooth Maps in Sobolev Spaces Between Two Manifolds.- On The Mathematical Modeling Of Textures In Polymeric Liquid Crystals.- A Result on the Global Existence for Heat Flows of Harmonic Maps from D2 into S2.- Blow-Up Analysis for Heat Flow of Harmonic Maps.- Taylor-Couette Instability in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- On a Class of Solutions in the Theory of Nematic Phases.- Rheology of Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystalline Polymers.- Cartesian Currents and Liquid Crystals Dipoles, Singular Lines and Singular Points.- Heat Flow for Harmonic Maps.- The Motion of Defects in Convective Structures of the Elliptical Shear Instability of a Nematic.- Fiber Evolution in the Heat Flow of Harmonic Maps.- Axially Symmetric Harmonic Maps.- Defects of Stationary Convective Structures in a Nematic.- An Approach to the Construction of Morse Flows for Variational Functionals.- An Example of Frustration in a Ferromagnetic Material.- Flow-Induced Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Defects in Macroscopic Structures: Ginzburg-Landau Approach.- Nematic Liquid Crystals with Variable Degree of Orientation.- Field-Induced Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Variational Problems with Obstacles and Harmonic Maps.- Weakly Nonlinear Analysis of Pattern Formation in Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Dynamics of Defects.- Defects of Nonlinear Waves in the Convection Of A Nematic Liquid Crystal.- Projection Methods for Solving Nonlinear Systems of Equations.- Regularity Results for Harmonic Maps of Minkowski Space.- Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals with Variable Degree of Orientation.- External Forcing of Liquid Crystal Instabilities.- On Travelling Waves in Electrohydrodynamic Convection in Nematics.

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Defects, Singularities and Patterns in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Mathematical and Physical Aspects, Orsay, France, May 28-June 1, 1990

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Nematic liquid crystals.

edited by Jean-Michel Coron, Jean-Michel Ghidaglia, Frédéric Hélein.

Frédéric Hélein

J -M Ghidaglia

Jean-Michel Coron

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