The Oseen-Frank limit of Onsager's molecular theory for liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1180-6zbMath1384.35096arXiv1602.00514OpenAlexW3099061547MaRDI QIDQ1702548

Wei Wang, Yuning Liu

Publication date: 28 February 2018

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00514

zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalsglobal minimizersOseen-Frank theoryOnsager's molecular theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27)

Related Items (4)

Modelling and computation of liquid crystals ⋮ Effective surface energies in nematic liquid crystals as homogenized rugosity effects ⋮ The small Deborah number limit of the Doi-Onsager equation without hydrodynamics ⋮ Γ-convergence of a mean-field model of a chiral doped nematic liquid crystal to the Oseen–Frank description of cholesterics

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