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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 83 No. 5 (1990) pp. 824-828

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A Model for Defect Chaos in Electrohydrodynamic Convection of Nematic Liquid Crystals

Shin-ichi Sasa

Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606

(Received February 5, 1990)

Abstract:

We present a simple mathematical model for the description of defect chaos in electrohydrodynamic convection. Our model can exhibit the transition from the Williams domain to the fluctuating Williams domain.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/83/824/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.83.824

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Citing Article(s) :

  1. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 61 (1992) pp. 3950-3959 :
    The Transition from Quasi-Periodicity to Chaos in the Electro-Hydrodynamic Instability of a Nematic Liquid Crystal
    Yoshiki Hidaka, Hiroshi Orihara and Yoshihiro Ishibashi
  2. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 63 (1994) pp. 1698-1712 :
    Evolution Processes of the Williams Domain in the Electro-Hydrodynamic Systems with Free and Rigid Lateral Boundaries
    Yoshiki Hidaka, Kazurou Shimokawa, Tomoyuki Nagaya, Hiroshi Orihara and Yoshihiro Ishibashi
  3. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 67 (1998) pp. 1948-1954 :
    Transition Properties of the Soft-Mode Turbulence in the Homeotropic Electroconvection Superimposing Magnetic Fields
    Jong-Hoon Huh, Yoshiki Hidaka and Shoichi Kai
  4. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 84 No. 6 (1990) pp. 1009-1013 :
    The Dynamics near Zigzag Instability
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  5. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 90 No. 1 (1993) pp. 1-34 :
    Phase Wave in a Cellular Structure
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  6. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 92 No. 3 (1994) pp. 509-519 :
    Transitions to Defect Turbulence in an Anisotropic System
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  7. Progress of Theoretical Physics Vol. 96 No. 5 (1996) pp. 1037-1042 :
    Defect Turbulence in the Coupled Swift-Hohenberg-Ginzburg-Landau Equations
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  8. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.161 (2006) pp. 1-11 :
    Soft-Mode Turbulence in Electroconvection of Nematics
    Yoshiki Hidaka, Koyo Tamura and Shoichi Kai