scientific article; zbMATH DE number 176395
algorithmequilibrium configurationsfinite differenceLandau-de Gennes free energy functionalliquid crystalnematic liquid crystalsorder-parameter tensor fieldparallel implementationSIMD machine
PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Liquid crystals (76A15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)
[For the entire collectioon see Zbl 0753.00017.] The authors describe a finite difference code for computing equilibrium configurations of the order-parameter tensor field for nematic liquid crystals in rectangular regions, by minimization of the Landau-de Gennes free energy functional. This functional includes electric and magnetic fields, quadratic gradient terms and the scalar bulk contribution through fourth order, while the boundary conditions include the effects of strong surface anchoring. The algorithm is implemented in a SIMD machine with interconnection networks which can be configured as 2 or 3 dimensional grids. The efficiency of the iteration methods to solve the linear systems arising on such discretizations is also discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0753.00017].
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