Weak anchoring for a two-dimensional liquid crystal

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2014.08.011MaRDI QIDQ2349063zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bernardo Galvão-Sousa, Stan Alama, Lia Bronsard

Publication date 16 June 2015

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3024

zbMATH Keywords

Landau-de Gennesliquid crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Liquid crystals (76A15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We study the weak anchoring condition for nematic liquid crystals in the context of the Landau-De Gennes model. We restrict our attention to two dimensional samples and to nematic director fields lying in the plane, for which the Landau-De Gennes energy reduces to the Ginzburg--Landau functional, and the weak anchoring condition is realized via a penalized boundary term in the energy. We study the singular limit as the length scale parameter $varepsilono0$, assuming the weak anchoring parameter $lambda=lambda(varepsilon)oinfty$ at a prescribed rate. We also consider a specific example of a bulk nematic liquid crystal with an included oil droplet and derive a precise description of the defect locations for this situation, for $lambda(varepsilon)=Kvarepsilo{n}^{-alpha}$ with $alphain(0,1]$. We show that defects lie on the weak anchoring boundary for $alphain(0,frac12)$, or for $alpha=frac12$ and $K$ small, but they occur inside the bulk domain $Omega$ for $alpha>frac12$ or $alpha=frac12$ with $K$ large.

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