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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032508
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- Agency for Research and Development of Slovenia [J1-4297, J1-4134]
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We study the dynamics of the nematic liquid crystal kickback effect upon removal of a primary electric field and its amplification by a perpendicular secondary electric field resulting in the formation of domains with a reverse director orientation. Using computational fluid dynamics, we show that the domain formation is a robust phenomenon that takes place also in the complex case of multiple irregular random Freedericksz domains in three dimension as they appear in a realistic experimental situation. We propose domain switching by kickback amplification as a tool for self-insertion of shell-like inhomogeneities into an otherwise perfectly uniform director field configuration.
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