Plateau instability of a liquid crystalline cylinder in a magnetic field.
The capillary instability of a liquid crystalline cylinder in magnetic field is considered using an energy approach. The boundary problem is solved in the linear approximation of the anisotropy chi(a) of the magnetic susceptibility chi. The effect of anisotropy, in the region 1>> chi > chi(a) >> chi2, can be strong enough to counteract and even reverse the tendency of the field to enhance stabilization by enlarging the cutoff wave number k(s) beyond the conventional one set by Rayleigh.
Fel
Leonid G
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. lfel@techunix.technion.ac.il
Zimmels
Yoram
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