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Help Plotting director fields

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• Subject: [mg120190] Help Plotting director fields
• From: Liquid Crystal <liqlearner at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:59:25 -0400 (EDT)

Hello,

I am trying to plot a director field for nematic liquid crystals.
The form of the director is, in pseudo-mathematica

n = {Cos[theta],Sin[theta]}

Where:

theta = s ArcTan[y/x] + theta_0

If you reference the following links, you will see the various
disinclinations induced in the director field by choosing various s
and theta_0

http://learnliquid.blogspot.com/2011/07/test.html

However, using the following code I am not able to produce these images.
Any suggestions?

AAA = {Cos[-1/2 ArcTan[y/x] + 0/2], Sin[-1/2 ArcTan[y/x] + 0/2]}

StreamPlot[AAA, {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, StreamPoints -> 12,
 AspectRatio -> 1, StreamScale -> None]

Thank you,

LL

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