Inhomogeneous phenomena in nematic liquid crystals (original) (raw)

List of Figures 5.12 Dynamical scaling in biaxial quench 5.13 Defect strings in biaxial phase 5.14 Intercommutation of biaxial defect strings 5.15 Dynamical scaling of the structure function of the uniaxial phase in 3D 6.1 Circular drops with κ = 0 6.2 Shape of nematic drops at zero temperature with κ = 0 6.3 Ellipse-shaped drops with κ > 0 6.4 Shape of nematic drops at zero temperature with κ > 0 6.5 Nucleating ellipse-shaped drops at κ < 0 6.6 Shape of nematic drops at zero temperature with κ < 0 6.7 Spherical droplets in 3-dimensions with κ = 0 6.8 Cross-section and field structure of nucleating drops 6.9 3D structures of uniaxial droplets with κ > 0 6.10 Field structure and cross-section of a droplet with κ > 0 6.11 Nucleating drops with κ < 0 6.12 Droplet Cross-section and field structure with κ < 0 List of Tables 3.1 Non-dimensionalization of parameters in the GLdG theory 3.2 Scaling of the parallel algorithm 4.