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cond-mat.soft2002
Transition to spatially periodic patterns in nematics under oscillatory shear flow: linear analysis
O. S. Tarasov, A. P. Krekhov, L. Kramer
We consider the orientational instabilities, both homogeneous and spatially periodic, developing in a nematic liquid crystal under rectilinear oscillatory Couette flow for director…
nlin.PS2002
Retracting fronts induce spatio-temporal intermittency
Pierre Coullet, Lorenz Kramer
The intermittent route to spatio-temporal complexity is analyzed in a simple model which displays a subcritical bifurcation without hysteresis. A new type of spatio-temporal comple…