A bifurcation analysis of models of liquid crystals
In this thesis we provide a deeper insight into the fundamental phase transition between isotropic and nematic states of liquid crystals. In particular, we focus on the problem of classifying all minimising states of the Onsager free-energy functional in three dimensions, a problem which has drawn a...
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University of Oxford
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748946 |