Effects of Elliptically Polarized Shear Flows in Nematics
- 14 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (20), 1280-1282
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1280
Abstract
We report the observation of an instability pattern in a homeotropically oriented nematic slab subject to elliptically polarized shear flow, a phenomenon which we explain as resulting from nonzero time-averaged Leslie-Ericksen viscous stresses.Keywords
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