A Landau-de Gennes theory of liquid crystal elastomers
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Publication:479090
DOI10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.283zbMath1305.70033arXiv1312.3019MaRDI QIDQ479090
Carlos Garavito Garzón, M. Carme Calderer, Baisheng Yan
Publication date: 5 December 2014
Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3019
energy minimization; variational methods; invertibility; liquid crystals; Landau-de Gennes model; anisotropic nonlinear elasticity
70G75: Variational methods for problems in mechanics
74B20: Nonlinear elasticity
74E10: Anisotropy in solid mechanics
80A22: Stefan problems, phase changes, etc.
74G65: Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics
76A15: Liquid crystals
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