Abstract
Continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals describes many properties of these unusual liquids rather well. In particular the static theory of Oseen [1], Frank [2] and Ericksen [3] predicts satisfactorily a variety of equilibrium configurations of the anisotropic axis of these transversely isotropic liquids. Also the dynamic theory proposed by Ericksen [4] and Leslie [5] successfully analyses most flow effects, many involving rather complex coupling between flow and alignment of the anisotropic axis. Useful descriptions of properties of these anisotropic liquids and related continuum theory are readily available in the books by de Gennes [6] and Chandrasekhar [7] and the article by Stephen & Straley [8], while Ericksen [9], Jenkins [10] and Leslie [11] review different aspects of continuum theory in some detail.
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