Capillary Flow of Cholesteric and Smectic Liquid Crystals
- 18 August 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 23 (7), 372-374
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.23.372
Abstract
It is shown theoretically that the motion of liquid crystals through capillaries may resemble that of a plug, the velocity profile being flat rather than parabolic.Keywords
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