Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 34, Number 6, May III 1996
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Page(s) | 417 - 422 | |
Section | Condensed matter: structure, thermal and mechanical properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00111-0 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Electrohydrodynamic convection with destabilizing magnetic field
1
Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bayreuth - 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
2
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Calgary,
AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
Received:
24
November
1995
Accepted:
2
April
1996
We report mainly on theoretical investigations of electrohydrodynamic convection in nematic liquid crystals under the influence of a destabilizing magnetic field. We find that the slope of the threshold curve as a function of the magnetic field changes at first discontinuously at some point before the bifurcation becomes subcritical at high magnetic fields. The results are in qualitative agreement with few existing experimental results.
PACS: 61.30.Gd – Orientational order of liquid crystals; electric and magnetic field effects on order / 47.20.-k – Hydrodynamic stability
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