A new mixed finite element formulation for reorientation in liquid crystalline elastomers

DOI10.1016/J.EUROMECHSOL.2022.104828MaRDI QIDQ2102626zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Groß, Julian Dietzsch, Francesca Concas

Publication date 29 November 2022

Published in European Journal of Mechanics. A. Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2022.104828

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleenergy-momentum schemeanisotropic thermo-viscoelastic materialGalerkin space-time integrationmesogen reorientation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Materials of strain-rate type and history type, other materials with memory (including elastic materials with viscous damping, various viscoelastic materials) (74D99) Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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• Numerical study of liquid crystal elastomers by a mixed finite element method
• Finite element modeling of viscoelastic liquid crystal elastomers
• Simulation of liquid crystal elastomers using Chebyshev spectral method with a new preconditioner

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• CSparse
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