Plateau Instability of Liquid Crystalline Cylinder in Magnetic Field

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2004-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0411200v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

14 pages, 2 figures

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The capillary instability of a LC cylinder in magnetic field is considered using an energy approach. The boundary problem is solved in the linear approximation of the anisotropy $\chi_a$ of the magnetic susceptibility $\chi$. The effect of anisotropy, in the region $1\gg|\chi|>|\chi_a|\gg \chi^2$, can be strong enough to counteract and even reverse the tendency of the field to enhance stabilization by enlarging the cut--off wave number $k_s$ beyond the conventional one set by Rayleigh.

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