By Agnes Buka, Lorenz Kramer
ISBN-10: 146123994X
ISBN-13: 9781461239949
ISBN-10: 1461284643
ISBN-13: 9781461284642
In the final two decades the examine of nonlinear nonequilibrium phenomena in spa tially prolonged platforms, with specific emphasis on pattern-forming phenomena, has been one of many very energetic components in physics, showing attention-grabbing ramifi cations into different sciences. in this time the learn of the "classic" structures, like Rayleigh-Benard convection and Taylor vortex move in uncomplicated fluids, has additionally been supplemented through the learn of extra complicated platforms. right here liquid crystals have performed, and are nonetheless enjoying, an enormous function. One may say that liquid crystals offer simply the correct amount and proper of complexity. they're jam-packed with non linearities and provides upward thrust to new symmetry sessions, that are occasionally really easier to accommodate qualitatively, yet they nonetheless let a quantitative description of experiments in lots of instances. in reality one of many points of interest of the sphere is the shut touch among experimentalists and theorists. Hydrodynamic instabilities in liquid crystals had already skilled a interval of extreme learn within the past due Nineteen Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies, yet at the moment neither the ex perimental and theoretical instruments nor the recommendations have been constructed sufficiently a ways to handle the questions that experience due to the fact been stumbled on to be of specific curiosity. The renewed curiosity is usually evidenced by way of the truth that a brand new sequence of workshops has developed. the 1st one happened in 1989 in Bayreuth and united individuals from just about all teams operating in trend formation in liquid crystals.
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In nematic liquid crystals, where the molecular dipole moments are more or less rigidly oriented with respect to the geometric axes of the molecules, this orienting effect of the external field on the induced polarization results in an orienting effect on the director. This 30 Harald Pleiner and Helmut R. 46) where lOa (= Ell - E~) describes the anisotropy of the (uniaxial) dielectric tensor E~8,-; + Ellnin j and E the electric field. Equilibrium states according to minima of Eq. 46) are either 0 II E (for E" > 0) or 0 ~ E (for lOa < 0).
Temporal changes Y i of the director orientation are coupled to symmetric velocity gradients (via the coefficient A) as well as to antisymmetric velocity gradients or the vorticity 2Wi = Eijk Vj Vk, where, however, no phenomenological parameter is involved. 2, where such a behavior under rotations was already postulated from the fact that the director is the symmetry variable due to broken 28 Harald Pleiner and Helmut R. Brand rotational symmetry. The parameter A can have either sign and governs the flow alignment behavior of nematics [45].
2. 1 Thermodynamics We can now set up the thennodynamic framework for the hydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystals. The hydrodynamic variables as discussed in the preceding subsections are mass density (p), momentum density (g), energy density (E), charge densi ty (Pe ), concentration (c ), and director rotations (on). All other degrees of freedom are relaxing to their equilibrium values everywhere on the hydrodynamic time scale. In a thennodynamic description these degrees of freedom are represented summarily by the entropy density (a).
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