caa a22 4500 378926403 CHVBK 20180305123618.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040304xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/JNETDY.2004.006 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/JNETDY.2004.006 Mesoscopic theory of liquid crystals [Elektronische Daten] [W. Muschik, C. Papenfuss, H. Ehrentraut] Liquid crystals of uniaxial and biaxial molecules are considered in the framework of the mesoscopic description which is a general tool of continuum theory. A mesoscopic theory introduces the fields beyond hydrodynamics as additional variables of a configuration space, called mesoscopic space, on which the fields appearing in balances are defined. Besides the mesoscopic space, a mesoscopic distribution function is introduced which describes the distribution of the additional variables at each time and position. It is demonstrated, how the mesoscopic theory can be applied to liquid crystals, and how the Ericksen-Leslie theory and the alignment tensor theory of liquid crystals fit into the mesoscopic framework. Copyright © 2004 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG Thermodynamics & statistical physics nationallicence Heat transfer processes nationallicence Muschik W. aut Papenfuss C. aut Ehrentraut H. aut Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Walter de Gruyter 29/1(2004-03-04), 75-106 0340-0204 29:1<75 2004 29 jnet https://doi.org/10.1515/JNETDY.2004.006 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/JNETDY.2004.006 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Muschik W. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Papenfuss C. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ehrentraut H. aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Walter de Gruyter 29/1(2004-03-04), 75-106 0340-0204 29:1<75 2004 29 jnet CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter