Bifurcations analysis of the twist-Fréedericksz transition in a nematic liquid-crystal cell with pre-twist boundary conditions: the asymmetric case

DOI10.1017/S0956792516000243MaRDI QIDQ4594638zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maria Isabel Méndez, J. T. Pinto, F. P. Da Costa

Publication date 24 November 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03767

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcation of equilibrialiquid-crystal cellsnon-homogeneous Dirichlet two-point boundary value problemstwist-fréedericksz transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: In the paper [Eur. J. of Appl. Math. extbf{20}, (2009) 269--287] by da Costa et al. the twist-Fr'eedericksz transition in a nematic liquid crystal one-dimensional cell of lenght $L$ was studied imposing an antisymmetric net twist Dirichlet condition at the cell boundaries. In the present paper we extend that study to the more general case of net twist Dirichlet conditions without any kind of symmetry restrictions. We use phase-plane analysis tools and appropriately defined time-maps to obtain the bifurcation diagrams of the model when $L$ is the bifurcation parameter, and related these diagrams with the one in the symmetric situation. The stability of the bifurcating solutions is investigated by applying the method of Kenjiro Maginu [J. Math. Anal. Appl. extbf{63}, (1978) 224--243].

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