Approximation of smectic-A liquid crystals
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PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)
Abstract: In this paper, we present energy-stable numerical schemes for a Smectic-A liquid crystal model. This model involve the hydrodynamic velocity-pressure macroscopic variables and the microscopic order parameter of Smectic-A liquid crystals, where its molecules have a uniaxial orientational order and a positional order by layers of normal and unitary vector . We start from the formulation given in cite{E} by using the so-called layer variable such that and the level sets of describe the layer structure of the Smectic-A liquid crystal. Then, a strongly non-linear parabolic system is derived coupling velocity and pressure unknowns of the Navier-Stokes equations with a fourth order parabolic equation for . We will give a reformulation as a mixed second order problem which let us to define some new energy-stable numerical schemes, by using second order finite differences in time and -finite elements in space. Finally, numerical simulations are presented for -domains, showing the evolution of the system until it reaches an equilibrium configuration. Up to our knowledge, there is not any previous numerical analysis for this type of models.
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