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Onsager's missing steps retraced
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng
Onsager's paper on phase transition and phase coexistence in anisotropic colloidal systems is a landmark in the theory of lyotropic liquid crystals. However, an uncompromising scru…
On a paradox in the impact dynamics of smooth rigid bodies
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Epifanio G. Virga, Mark Wilkinson +1
Paradoxes in the impact dynamics of rigid bodies are known to arise in the presence of friction. We show here that, on specificc occasions, in the absence of friction, the conserva…
Density functional theory for dense nematics with steric interactions
Eduardo S. Nascimento, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Jamie M. Taylor +2
The celebrated work of Onsager on hard particle systems, based on the truncated second order virial expansion, is valid at relatively low volume fractions for large aspect ratio pa…