Homogenization of a Ginzburg-Landau model for a nematic liquid crystal with inclusions

DOI10.1016/j.matpur.2004.09.013zbMath1162.35316MaRDI QIDQ1775757

Dmitry Golovaty, Doina Cioranescu, Leonid Berlyand

Publication date: 4 May 2005

Published in: Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpur.2004.09.013

zbMATH Keywords

homogenization; variational methods; crystals; homogenization in fluid mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals

35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations

35B27: Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure

76M50: Homogenization applied to problems in fluid mechanics

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