Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-02-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
17 pages, 7 Postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1784
Analytical calculations of the dynamics of a curved domain wall in a nematic liquid crystal are performed. The core of the wall is assumed to form a cylinder, whose axis coincides with the direction of an external magnetic field. The equation of motion for the nematic director field is solved in a comoving coordinate frame by applying a polynomial expansion of the tilt angle with respect to the radial distance from the wall core. Starting from a cylindrical domain wall at rest as initial conditions, the shrinking of the cylinder and the change of the wall width is analysed in detail. In particular, we find that the Neel wall decays faster than the Bloch wall, in agreement with energy considerations.
Arodz Henryk
Stelzer Joachim
No associations
LandOfFree
Dynamics of cylindrical domain walls in nematic liquid crystals does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Dynamics of cylindrical domain walls in nematic liquid crystals, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Dynamics of cylindrical domain walls in nematic liquid crystals will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-89274