A numerical investigation on configurational distortions in nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/s00332-011-9100-7zbMath1226.76004OpenAlexW1996367848WikidataQ59783189 ScholiaQ59783189MaRDI QIDQ650099

Anna Pandolfi, Gaetano Napoli

Publication date: 25 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-011-9100-7

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementsphase transitionnematic liquid crystalmetastable configurationstable configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21)

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Uses Software

• SuperLU

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