Diffusive transport in two-dimensional nematics
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Liquid crystals (76A15) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)
Abstract: We discuss a dynamical theory for nematic liquid crystals describing the stage of evolution in which the hydrodynamic fluid motion has already equilibrated and the subsequent evolution proceeds via diffusive motion of the orientational degrees of freedom. This diffusion induces a slow motion of singularities of the order parameter field. Using asymptotic methods for gradient flows, we establish a relation between the Doi-Smoluchowski kinetic equation and vortex dynamics in two-dimensional systems. We also discuss moment closures for the kinetic equation and Landau-de Gennes-type free energy dissipation.
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