ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC CONVECTION WITH DESTABILIZING MAGNETIC-FIELD

Authors
HERTRICH A PESCH W GLEESON JT
Citation
A. Hertrich et al., ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC CONVECTION WITH DESTABILIZING MAGNETIC-FIELD, Europhysics letters, 34(6), 1996, pp. 417-422
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Europhysics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
02955075
Volume
34
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
417 - 422
Database
ISI
SICI code
0295-5075(1996)34:6<417:ECWDM>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
We report mainly on theoretical investigations of electrohydrodynamic convection in nematic liquid crystals under the influence of a destabi lizing magnetic field. We find that the slope of the threshold curve a s a function of the magnetic field changes at first discontinuously at some point before the bifurcation becomes subcritical at high magneti c fields. The results are in qualitative agreement with few existing e xperimental results.