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- FIELD
- Math:Analysis
- DATE
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Dec 12 (Mon), 2022
- TIME
- 16:00 ~ 18:00
- PLACE
- 1423
- SPEAKER
- Soojung Kim
- HOST
- Kang, Nam-Gyu
- INSTITUTE
- 숭실대학교
- TITLE
- Field-induced instabilities of smectic liquid crystals
- ABSTRACT
- In this talk, we discuss liquid crystal flows in an applied magnetic field. In the nematic phase of a liquid crystal, molecules tend to align along a preferred direction but have no positional order. When lowering the temperature, layered molecular arrangement of the smectic phase occurs. Considering the de Gennes model for smectic liquid crystals, we study dynamical instabilities of pure smectic states and pure nematic states induced by magnetic fields. This is joint work with Xing-Bin Pan.
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