Liquid crystals have been very fruitful systems to study equilibrium phase transitions. Recently, they have become an important system to study dynamics of first-order phase transitions. The moving nonequilibrium nematic-isotropic interface is a model system to study growth of stable states into metastable states and displays a myriad of dynamical instabilities that, far from equilibrium, drive the system to a scenario of spatio-temporal chaos. We present a mean-field theory for the time evolution of a planar nonequilibrium nematic-isotropic interface for pure liquid crystals using a time dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation, which is one of the simplest approaches to dissipative dynamics. We obtain a theoretical expression for the growth kin...
We use the Landau-de Gennes theory of a nematic liquid crystal to investigate anew aspects of the pr...
In this thesis I will discuss the effects of shear flow on the Isotropic-Nematic phase transition in...
Abstract. We have experimentally observed the pattern instabilities of an Ising wall formed in a nem...
Liquid crystals have been very fruitful systems to study equilibrium phase transitions. Recently, th...
Liquid crystals have been very fruitful systems to study equilibrium phase transitions. Re-cently, t...
We investigate the motion of an interface between a nematic liquid crystal phase and the isotropic p...
We derive a supplemental evolution equation for an interface between the nematic and isotropic phase...
We present a sharp-interface theory for phase transformations between the isotropic and uniaxial nem...
In this paper, we derive the sharp interface model of the nematic-isotropic phase transition from th...
A computational study of morphological instabilities of a two-dimensional nematic front under direct...
We demonstrate that a first order isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in liquid crystals can be su...
We use a hybrid method of lattice Boltzmann and finite differences to simulate flat and curved inter...
Abstract. The e®ect of silica aerosils on the kinetics of the ¯rst-order nematic-isotropic (NI) phas...
We use the Landau-de Gennes theory of a nematic liquid crystal to investigate anew aspects of the pr...
We extend the random anisotropy nematic spin model to study nematic-isotropic transitions in porous ...
We use the Landau-de Gennes theory of a nematic liquid crystal to investigate anew aspects of the pr...
In this thesis I will discuss the effects of shear flow on the Isotropic-Nematic phase transition in...
Abstract. We have experimentally observed the pattern instabilities of an Ising wall formed in a nem...
Liquid crystals have been very fruitful systems to study equilibrium phase transitions. Recently, th...
Liquid crystals have been very fruitful systems to study equilibrium phase transitions. Re-cently, t...
We investigate the motion of an interface between a nematic liquid crystal phase and the isotropic p...
We derive a supplemental evolution equation for an interface between the nematic and isotropic phase...
We present a sharp-interface theory for phase transformations between the isotropic and uniaxial nem...
In this paper, we derive the sharp interface model of the nematic-isotropic phase transition from th...
A computational study of morphological instabilities of a two-dimensional nematic front under direct...
We demonstrate that a first order isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in liquid crystals can be su...
We use a hybrid method of lattice Boltzmann and finite differences to simulate flat and curved inter...
Abstract. The e®ect of silica aerosils on the kinetics of the ¯rst-order nematic-isotropic (NI) phas...
We use the Landau-de Gennes theory of a nematic liquid crystal to investigate anew aspects of the pr...
We extend the random anisotropy nematic spin model to study nematic-isotropic transitions in porous ...
We use the Landau-de Gennes theory of a nematic liquid crystal to investigate anew aspects of the pr...
In this thesis I will discuss the effects of shear flow on the Isotropic-Nematic phase transition in...
Abstract. We have experimentally observed the pattern instabilities of an Ising wall formed in a nem...