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The problem of finding the equilibrium shapes of a drop of nematic liquid crystal in contact with an isotropic fluid is fascinating, but hard to solve. I attempt here to crack this problem.
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Dedicated to Bernard D. Coleman on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday
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Virga, E.G. (1991). Drops of Nematic Liquid Crystals. In: Markovitz, H., Mizel, V.J., Owen, D.R. (eds) Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75975-8_11
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