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A theoretical description of the formation of hydrodynamic flows in narrow liquid-crystal channels with free surface under laser irradiation was proposed. Within the nonlinear generalization of the classical Ericksen-Leslie theory, the thermomechanical contributions to both the stress tensor and viscous moment per unit volume of the liquid-crystal phase were taken into account, which allowed the description of some features in the formation of a flow in nematics formed by 4-n-pentyl-4′- and 4-n-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl molecules.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Zakharov, A.A. Vakulenko, 2015, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2015, Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 1645–1653.
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Zakharov, A.V., Vakulenko, A.A. Formation of local flows in thin nematic channels with free surface under laser irradiation. Phys. Solid State 57, 1685–1694 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783415080351
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