Orientational instabilities in nematics with weak anchoring under combined action of steady flow and external fields

I. Sh. Nasibullayev, O. S. Tarasov, A. P. Krekhov +1

We study the homogeneous and the spatially periodic instabilities in a nematic liquid crystal layer subjected to steady plane {\em Couette} or {\em Poiseuille} flow. The initial di…