Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals

In the last 20 years the study of nonlinear nonequilibrium phenomena in spa­ tially extended systems, with particular emphasis on pattern-forming phenomena, has been one of the very active areas in physics, exhibiting interesting ramifi­ cations into other sciences. During this time the study of the...

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Other Authors: Buka, Agnes (Editor), Kramer, Lorenz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Partially Ordered Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 7.2 The Mullins—Sekerka Instability -- 7.3 Directional Growth Experiments -- 7.4 Free-Growth Experiments -- 7.5 Prospects -- References -- 8 Viscous Fingering -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Theoretical Background -- 8.3 Experiments -- 8.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 9 Thermal Fluctuations in Pattern Forming Instabilities -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Macroscopic Stochastic Equations for Thermal Noise -- 9.3 Stochastic Amplitude Equations -- 9.4 Theoretical Results -- 9.5 Experimental Results -- 9.6 Discussion -- References 
505 0 |a 4.4 Shear Flow Instabilities with the Director Perpendicular to the Shear Plane -- 4.5 Flow Instabilities with the Director Initially Parallel to the Shear Plane -- 4.6 Elliptical Shear Instability in Homeotropic Configuration -- 4.7 Further Developments -- Appendix A: Linear stability problem when the director is perpendicular to the shear plane -- Appendix B: Elliptical Shear Equations -- References -- 5 Experiments on Thermally Driven Convection -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Planar Alignment and a Horizontal Magnetic Field -- 5.3 Homeotropic Alignment and a Vertical Magnetic Field -- 5.4 Two-Phase Convection -- Appendix A: Experimental Methods -- Appendix B: Physical Properties of 5CB -- References -- 6 Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Planar alignment: linear theory -- 6.3 Planar alignment: nonlinear theory -- 6.4 Homeotropic alignment -- 6.5 Concludingremarks -- References -- 7 Mesophase Growth -- 7.1 Introduction --  
505 0 |a 1 Introduction to Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Systems -- 1.1 General Remarks -- 1.2 A Simple Model -- 1.3 Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals -- References -- 2 Hydrodynamics and Electrohydrodynamics of Liquid Crystals -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Symmetries and Broken Symmetries -- 2.3 Statics -- 2.4 Dynamics -- 2.5 Electrohydrodynamics -- 2.6 Additions to Nematodynamics -- 2.7 Director-Type Degrees of Freedom -- References -- 3 General Mathematical Description of Pattern-Forming Instabilities -- 3.1 Introductory Remarks -- 3.2 Linear Analysis -- 3.3 The Landau Equation -- 3.4 The Ginzburg—Landau Equations -- 3.5 Extended Weakly Nonlinear Analysis -- 3.6 From Order Parameter to Amplitude Equations -- 3.7 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 4 Flow Instabilities in Nematics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Continuous Description of Nematics and Viscometry -- 4.3 Stability Analysis and Basic Mechanisms --  
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520 |a In the last 20 years the study of nonlinear nonequilibrium phenomena in spa­ tially extended systems, with particular emphasis on pattern-forming phenomena, has been one of the very active areas in physics, exhibiting interesting ramifi­ cations into other sciences. During this time the study of the "classic" systems, like Rayleigh-Benard convection and Taylor vortex flow in simple fluids, has also been supplemented by the study of more complex systems. Here liquid crystals have played, and are still playing, a major role. One might say that liquid crystals provide just the right amount and right kind of complexity. They are full of non­ linearities and give rise to new symmetry classes, which are sometimes actually simpler to deal with qualitatively, but they still allow a quantitative description of experiments in many cases. In fact one of the attractions of the field is the close contact between experimentalists and theorists. Hydrodynamic instabilities in liquid crystals had already experienced a period of intense study in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but at that time neither the ex­ perimental and theoretical tools nor the concepts had been developed sufficiently far to address the questions that have since been found to be of particular interest. The renewed interest is also evidenced by the fact that a new series of workshops has evolved. The first one took place in 1989 in Bayreuth and united participants from almost all groups working in pattern formation in liquid crystals