Nonlinear methods for shape optimization problems in liquid crystal tactoids

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2025.04.004MaRDI QIDQ6993084zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. H. Adler, A. S. Andrei, T. J. Atherton

Publication date 25 April 2025

Published in Computers \& Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CAMWA.2025.04.004

zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalsnested iterationquasi-Newton's methodshape optimizationtactoids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Newton-type methods (49M15) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N22) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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