Diffusive transport in two-dimensional nematics

DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2015.8.323zbMATH Open1302.76019arXiv1403.0243OpenAlexW2963200911MaRDI QIDQ479097FDOQ479097

Authors: Ibrahim Fatkullin, Valeriy V. Slastikov 

Publication date: 5 December 2014

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0243

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalsvortex motiondiffusive transportDoi-Smoluchowskinematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

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