On the Landau-de Gennes elastic energy of constrained biaxial nematics

DOI10.1137/15M1041043zbMATH Open1347.82020MaRDI QIDQ2811887FDOQ2811887

Authors: Domenico Mucci, Lorenzo Nicolodi 

Publication date: 8 June 2016

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalsLandau-de Gennes energyconstrained biaxial nematicsQ-tensor theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Variational inequalities (49J40) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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• On the Landau-de Gennes elastic energy of a \(Q\)-tensor model for soft biaxial nematics
• Landau theory for biaxial nematic liquid crystals with two order parameter tensors
• Mechanics of nematic membranes: Euler–Lagrange equations, Noether charges, stress, torque and boundary conditions of the surface Frank’s nematic field
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