Oseen–Frank-type theories of ordered media as the Γ-limit of a non-local mean-field free energy

DOI10.1142/S0218202518500161zbMath1393.49008arXiv1703.06863MaRDI QIDQ4569638

Jamie M. Taylor

Publication date: 27 June 2018

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06863

zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystals\(\Gamma\) convergenceOseen-Frank modelmean-field free energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Liquid crystals (76A15) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Periodic optimal control problems (49N20)

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Modelling and computation of liquid crystals ⋮ Effective surface energies in nematic liquid crystals as homogenized rugosity effects ⋮ Hölder regularity and convergence for a non-local model of nematic liquid crystals in the large-domain limit ⋮ 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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