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Statistical theory of the thermodynamic and structural properties of nematic liquid crystals with intermolecular correlations taken into account

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The characteristics of nematic liquid crystals are expressed in terms of mean force potentials, which satisfy a nonlinear integral equation. This equation is solved numerically and results are given for the nematic PAA.

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  1. A. V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    É. T. Bruk-Levinson & A. V. Zakharov

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 262–268, February, 1988.

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Bruk-Levinson, É.T., Zakharov, A.V. Statistical theory of the thermodynamic and structural properties of nematic liquid crystals with intermolecular correlations taken into account. Journal of Engineering Physics 54, 188–193 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00878421

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