F.P. da Costa, M. Grinfeld, M. Langer, N.J. Mottram and J.T. Pinto,
Kickback in nematic liquid crystals,
Quart. Appl. Math. 70 (2012), 99–110
Abstract:
We describe a nonlocal linear partial differential equation arising in the analysis of
dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal. We confirm that it accounts for the
kickback phenomenon by decoupling the director dynamics from the flow.
We also analyse some of the mathematical properties of the decoupled director equation.