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Nematic topological defects in the presence of axisymmetric fluid flow
Robert A. Pelcovits, Pengyu Liu
Recent numerical simulations of lid-driven cavity flow of a nematic liquid crystal have found dynamical behavior where topological defects rotate about the center of the fluid vort…
math-ph2012
Analysis of a Fivefold Symmetric Superposition of Plane Waves
Michael H. Schwarz, Robert A. Pelcovits
We show that a symmetric superposition of five standing plane waves can be expressed as an infinite series of terms of decreasing wavenumber, where each term is a product of five p…