A tensor model for liquid crystals on a spherical surface

DOI10.1007/S11425-013-4746-2zbMATH Open1309.82034OpenAlexW2003476651MaRDI QIDQ476524FDOQ476524

Authors: Hong Cheng, Pingwen Zhang 

Publication date: 2 December 2014

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-013-4746-2

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalBingham closure approximationnematic texturetennis-ball configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Spherical harmonics (33C55) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Cites Work

• Numerical Optimization
• A molecular kinetic theory of inhomogeneous liquid crystal flow and the small Deborah number limit
• A Proof of the Hairy Ball Theorem
• The structure of equilibrium solutions of the one-dimensional Doi equation

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• Liquid crystals on deformable surfaces
• Global well-posedness for the dynamical \(Q\)-tensor model of liquid crystals
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