Note on the hydrodynamic description of thin nematic films: strong anchoring model

DOI10.1063/1.4816508MaRDI QIDQ2945306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4110, https://figshare.com/articles/Note_on_the_hydrodynamic_description_of_thin_nematic_films_strong_anchoring_model/9389060

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Thin fluid films (76A20)

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.

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

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5179531 (Why is no real title available?)
• Anisotropic fluids
• Engineering Flows in Small Devices: Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip
• Evolution of a thin film of nematic liquid crystal with anisotropic surface energy
• Fingering instabilities in driven thin nematic films
• INTERFACIAL EFFECTS IN THE STATIC THEORY OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
• Instabilities in Gravity Driven Flow of Thin Fluid Films
• Modeling and simulations of the spreading and destabilization of nematic droplets
• Some constitutive equations for liquid crystals

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)