Modelling the capillary locking of point defects in nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1093/IMAMAT/58.3.211MaRDI QIDQ4362085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Guidone Peroli, Epifanio G. Virga

Publication date 28 October 1997

Published in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/95d144cd63ae1c98dfabc0a51a2223feb3033c1f

zbMATH Keywords

\(+1\) defectbroken jointcontinuous orientation fieldsFrank free energy densitymeniscus interactionmetastable equilibrium positionone-constant approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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