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  1. Contributions of repulsive and attractive interactions to nematic order

    Article • Liquid Crystals, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  2. On a paradox in the impact dynamics of smooth rigid bodies

    Article • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  3. Chain paradoxes

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, November 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  4. The minimum excluded volume of convex shapes

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, September 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  5. Double-well elastic theory for twist-bend nematic phases

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  6. Dissipative shocks in a chain fountain

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  7. Onsagerian formula for the excluded volume of spherodisks

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  8. Exact second virial coefficient for dipolar hard spheres

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, October 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  9. Octupolar approximation for the excluded volume of axially symmetric convex bodies

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  10. An analytic mean-field model for the magnetic response of a ferrofluid monolayer

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  11. Geodesic defect anchoring on nematic shells

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  12. Parallel transport and defects on nematic shells

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  13. Dissipative Ordered Fluids

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  14. Molecular Theories

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  15. Director Theories

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  16. Dynamics of Dissipative Fluids

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  17. Order Tensor Theories

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  18. Nematoacoustics

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  19. Phase polarity in a ferrofluid monolayer of shifted-dipole spheres

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  20. Director libration in nematoacoustics

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  21. Curvature control of valence on nematic shells

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  22. Steric effects in a mean-field model for polar nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  23. Reorientational dynamics of conjugated nematic point defects

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  24. Finite-size effects on order reconstruction around nematic defects

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  25. Variational theory for nematoacoustics

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  26. Flow and reorientation in the dynamics of nematic defects

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  27. Minimum Principle for Indefinite Mean-Field Free Energies

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  28. Landau theory for biaxial nematic liquid crystals with two order parameter tensors

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  29. Fingered core structure of nematic boojums

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  30. Dominant biaxial quadrupolar contribution to the nematic potential of mean torque

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  31. Director reorientation and order reconstruction: competing mechanisms in a nematic cell

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  32. Polar steric interactions for V -shaped molecules

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  33. Molecular dynamics simulation of a nanoscopic nematic twist cell

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  34. Uniaxial rebound at the nematic biaxial transition

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  35. Defect-enhanced nematic surface order reconstruction

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  36. Constrained stability for biaxial nematic phases

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  37. Integral criteria for closed surfaces with constant mean curvature

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, February 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  38. Elastic actions exchanged by eccentric cylinders in liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  39. Quadrupolar projection of excluded-volume interactions in biaxial nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  40. Universal mean-field phase diagram for biaxial nematics obtained from a minimax principle

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  41. Residual stability of sessile droplets with negative line tension

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  42. Erratum: Minimal coupling model of the biaxial nematic phase [Phys. Rev. E 71 , 051714 (2005)]

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  43. Criterion for Tricritical Points in Liquid Crystal Phases

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  44. Bifurcation analysis and computer simulation of biaxial liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  45. Tricritical points in biaxial liquid crystal phases

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  46. Minimal coupling model of the biaxial nematic phase

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  47. Mechanical actions on nanocylinders in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  48. Nanomechanics of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  49. Sign of line tension in liquid bridge stability

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  50. Local elastic stability for nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  51. Local stability for a general wetting functional

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, March 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  52. Second variation of the energy functional for adhering vesicles in two space dimensions

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, December 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  53. Order reconstruction in frustrated nematic twist cells

    Article • August 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  54. General stability criterion for wetting

    Article • July 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  55. Dielectric shape dispersion and biaxial transitions in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • June 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  56. Dissipative Fluids with Microstructure

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  57. Core hysteresis in nematic defects

    Article • August 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  58. Elastic forces on nematic point defects

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, June 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  59. Dynamics of kinks in biological membranes

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, February 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  60. Stability of lipid bridges

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, December 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  61. Dynamics of dissipative ordered fluids

    Article • August 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  62. Erratum: Dilution of nematic surface potentials: Relaxation dynamics [Phys. Rev. E 62 , 3694 (2000)]

    Article • June 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  63. An extended Wirtinger inequality

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, February 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  64. Universal fine structure of nematic hedgehogs

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, January 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  65. Restoring Forces on Nematic Disclinations

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  66. Challenges in the Dynamics of Point Defects

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  67. Corrugations on the Free Surface of Nematic Liquid Crystal Layers

    Article • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, December 2000, Japan Society of Applied Physics

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  68. Adhesion of oriented nematic droplets

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, December 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  69. Dilution of nematic surface potentials: Relaxation dynamics

    Article • September 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  70. Dilution of nematic surface potentials: Statics

    Article • May 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  71. Squeezing and stretching of vesicles

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, February 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  72. Biaxial torus around nematic point defects

    Article • August 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  73. Hydrodynamic model for surface nematic viscosity

    Article • April 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  74. Role of boundary conditions in the annihilation of nematic point defects

    Article • March 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  75. Nucleation of Topological Dipoles¶in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Communications in Mathematical Physics, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  76. Adhesion by Curvature of Lipid Tubules

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, December 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  77. Orientational capillary pressure on a nematic point defect

    Article • September 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  78. Exact Statics and Approximate Dynamics of Adhering Lipid Tubules

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, April 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  79. Dynamics of point defects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  80. Dynamics of nematic loop disclinations

    Article • December 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  81. On a Curvature Surface Energy for Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, November 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  82. Arrays of nematic point defects evolving towards neutral equilibria

    Article • August 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  83. A surface-induced transition in polymeric nematics

    Article • Liquid Crystals, April 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  84. Local stability of biaxial nematic phases between two cylinders

    Article • International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, March 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  85. Original Article On the equilibrium of smectic C liquid crystals

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, December 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  86. Annihilation of point defects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • November 1996, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  87. Metastable nematic hedgehogs

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, July 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  88. Curvature Capillarity of Lamellar Phases

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), October 1994, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  89. On surface biaxiality

    Article • Liquid Crystals, March 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  90. Variational Theories for Liquid Crystals

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  91. Instabilities

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  92. Drops

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  93. Physical background

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  94. Mathematical preliminaries

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  95. The classical theory

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  96. The new theory

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  97. New Variational Problems in the Statics of Liquid Crystals

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  98. Drops of Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  99. Interactions in General Continua with Microstructure

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  100. On Edge Interactions and Surface Tension

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  101. A boundary-value problem for nematic liquid crystals with a variable degree of orientation

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  102. A variational problem for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  103. Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals with Variable Degree of Orientation

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  104. Drops of Nematic Liquid Crystal Floating on a Fluid

    Article • January 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  105. Interactions in general continua with microstructure

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  106. On edge interactions and surface tension

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  107. Drops of nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, September 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  108. A variational proof of the stress theorem of Cauchy

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, June 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  109. On the variation of the Hamiltonian functional for an immiscible mixture

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, March 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  110. Fit Regions and Functions of Bounded Variation

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  111. Fit regions and functions of bounded variation

    Article • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, March 1988, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  112. Cavitation and Phase Transition of Hyperelastic Fluids

    Article • January 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  113. On a modified differential approximation method in radiative gas dynamics

    Article • Meccanica, September 1982, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  114. Surface Order Forces in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga

  115. Inhomogeneities in Biological Membranes

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga