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Homoclinic bifurcations in a liquid crystal flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2001

T. PEACOCK  and
T. MULLIN
T. PEACOCK
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Manchester University, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK Present address: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
T. MULLIN
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Manchester University, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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Abstract

The results of an experimental study of electrohydrodynamic convection in a liquid crystal are presented. Investigations concerned a small-aspect-ratio device so that finite geometry effects could be exploited to study the mechanisms by which complicated flows were organized. The results have been related to ideas on Shil'nikov dynamics and gluing bifurcations in low-dimensional dynamical systems.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 432 , 10 April 2001 , pp. 369 - 386
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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