Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, P. R. China
Abstract
A generalized form of surface dissipation function, for the description of the relative motion of the nematic director with respect to the polymer side chains in twisted chiral nematic samples is proposed, and the relaxation time of such samples are investigated, using the perturbation analysis method proposed by Alexe-Ionescu et al. Our results show that the presence of both the surface dissipation and the polymer side chains increase the relaxation time.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics