Swelling and tilting in smectic layers |
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Institution: | Dipartimento di Matematica dell''Università di Pisa Via F. Buonarroti n. 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy |
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Abstract: | Smectic liquid crystals are quasi-solid materials, in that they possess microstructure both of the material and the local type (the nematic microstructure and the lamellae). In the standard approach, the rod-like molecules are supposed to be strictly normal to the layers; here we abandon this constraint and admit the possibility for the molecules to change orientation with respect to the layers, paying in energy. As a consequence, we obtain two equations: one expresses the balance of micromomentum, the other is Cauchy's equation. We derive also their form in the linear approximation and solve two typical problems. |
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