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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 176395
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 176395 |
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18 May 1993
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parallel implementation
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liquid crystal
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finite difference
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equilibrium configurations
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order-parameter tensor field
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nematic liquid crystals
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Landau-de Gennes free energy functional
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algorithm
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SIMD machine
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[For the entire collectioon see Zbl 0753.00017.] The authors describe a finite difference code for computing equilibrium configurations of the order-parameter tensor field for nematic liquid crystals in rectangular regions, by minimization of the Landau-de Gennes free energy functional. This functional includes electric and magnetic fields, quadratic gradient terms and the scalar bulk contribution through fourth order, while the boundary conditions include the effects of strong surface anchoring. The algorithm is implemented in a SIMD machine with interconnection networks which can be configured as 2 or 3 dimensional grids. The efficiency of the iteration methods to solve the linear systems arising on such discretizations is also discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0753.00017].
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