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

DOI10.1137/15M1041043MaRDI QIDQ2811887zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Domenico Mucci, Lorenzo Nicolodi

Publication date 8 June 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1041043

zbMATH Keywords

constrained biaxial nematicsLandau-de Gennes energyliquid crystalsQ-tensor theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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