By G Barbero,L R Evangelista
This e-book was once written to allow physicists and engineers to profit, inside a unmarried direction, a few subject matters in variational calculus, thought of elasticity, molecular types, and floor houses of nematic fabrics. It prepares graduate scholars for reports that require an easy wisdom within the physics of nematic liquid crystals.
With this attention in brain, the authors have formulated the issues about the continuum idea of liquid crystals right into a specific shape. In figuring out the suggestions, they've got analyzed, systematically and of course, the ideas and strategies of variational calculus. distinctive awareness is devoted to the research of well-posed and ill-posed variational difficulties. The presence of sub-surface discontinuity within the nematic orientation is analyzed utilizing diversified innovations. an entire bankruptcy is dedicated to this point of the idea of elasticity of nematic media.
Contents:
- Variational Calculus
- Theory of Elasticity I: Fundamentals
- Theory of Elasticity II: Applications
- Molecular Models
- Subsurface Deformations in Nematics
Readership: scholars in physics and electronics engineering; physicists and engineers in nematic liquid crystals.
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