Note on the hydrodynamic description of thin nematic films: strong anchoring model
From MaRDI portal
Publication:2945306
DOI10.1063/1.4816508zbMATH Open1320.76008arXiv1301.4110OpenAlexW2082288929MaRDI QIDQ2945306FDOQ2945306
Authors: Andrew J. Archer, L. Kondic, Uwe Thiele, Te-Sheng Lin, Linda Cummings 
Publication date: 9 September 2015
Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We discuss the long-wave hydrodynamic model for a thin film of nematic liquid crystal in the limit of strong anchoring at the free surface and at the substrate. We rigorously clarify how the elastic energy enters the evolution equation for the film thickness in order to provide a solid basis for further investigation: several conflicting models exist in the literature that predict qualitatively different behaviour. We consolidate the various approaches and show that the long-wave model derived through an asymptotic expansion of the full nemato-hydrodynamic equations with consistent boundary conditions agrees with the model one obtains by employing a thermodynamically motivated gradient dynamics formulation based on an underlying free energy functional. As a result, we find that in the case of strong anchoring the elastic distortion energy is always stabilising. To support the discussion in the main part of the paper, an appendix gives the full derivation of the evolution equation for the film thickness via asymptotic expansion.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4110
Recommendations
- Evolution of a thin film of nematic liquid crystal with anisotropic surface energy
- Thin nematic films: anchoring effects and stripe instability revisited
- Nematic liquid crystals on curved surfaces: a thin film limit
- Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model in planar nematic thin films
- Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model on curved nematic thin films
Cites Work
- Some constitutive equations for liquid crystals
- Engineering Flows in Small Devices: Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip
- Anisotropic fluids
- Fingering instabilities in driven thin nematic films
- Instabilities in Gravity Driven Flow of Thin Fluid Films
- Evolution of a thin film of nematic liquid crystal with anisotropic surface energy
- Modeling and simulations of the spreading and destabilization of nematic droplets
- INTERFACIAL EFFECTS IN THE STATIC THEORY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
- Title not available (Why is that?)
Cited In (9)
- Thin nematic films: anchoring effects and stripe instability revisited
- A hydrodynamical model of nematic liquid crystal films with a general state of orientational order
- Thin-film models for an active gel
- Evolution of a thin film of nematic liquid crystal with anisotropic surface energy
- Stability of thin fluid films characterised by a complex form of effective disjoining pressure
- Electric-field-mediated instability modes and fréedericksz transition of thin nematic films
- Modelling spreading dynamics of nematic liquid crystals in three spatial dimensions
- Three-dimensional coating flow of nematic liquid crystal on an inclined substrate
- Modeling flow of nematic liquid crystal down an incline
This page was built for publication: Note on the hydrodynamic description of thin nematic films: strong anchoring model
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2945306)
