Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model on curved nematic thin films

DOI10.1007/S00332-017-9390-5zbMATH Open1382.35220arXiv1611.03011OpenAlexW2997651296MaRDI QIDQ1685144FDOQ1685144

Authors: Dmitry Golovaty, José Alberto Montero, Peter Sternberg 

Publication date: 13 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the method of $Gamma$-convergence to study the behavior of the Landau-de Gennes model for a nematic liquid crystalline film attached to a general fixed surface in the limit of vanishing thickness. This paper generalizes the approach that we used previously to study a similar problem for a planar surface. Since the anchoring energy dominates when the thickness of the film is small, it is essential to understand its influence on the structure of the minimizers of the limiting energy. In particular, the anchoring energy dictates the class of admissible competitors and the structure of the limiting problem. We assume general weak anchoring conditions on the top and the bottom surfaces of the film and strong Dirichlet boundary conditions on the lateral boundary of the film when the surface is not closed. We establish a general convergence result to an energy defined on the surface that involves a somewhat surprising remnant of the normal component of the tensor gradient. Then we exhibit one effect of curvature through an analysis of the behavior of minimizers to the limiting problem when the substrate is a frustrum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03011

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zbMATH Keywords

thin filmnematicGamma-convergenceLandau-de Gennes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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