A Ginzburg--Landau-Type Problem for Highly Anisotropic Nematic Liquid Crystals

DOI10.1137/18M1178360zbMath1454.35360arXiv1712.00493OpenAlexW2963006944WikidataQ128421180 ScholiaQ128421180MaRDI QIDQ4621392

Raghavendra Venkatraman, Peter Sternberg, Dmitry Golovaty

Publication date: 12 February 2019

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00493

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsnematic liquid crystals\(\Gamma\)-convergenceOseen-Frank energyAviles-Giga energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Liquid crystals (76A15) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56)

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