Analysis and simulations of the Chen-Lubensky energy for smectic liquid crystals: onset of undulations

DOI10.4310/CMS.2014.V12.N6.A7zbMATH Open1322.82019MaRDI QIDQ482271FDOQ482271

Authors: Carlos J. García-Cervera, S. Joo 

Publication date: 22 December 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

smectic liquid crystalsChen-Lubenskyundulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10)

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• Layer undulations in a smectic C liquid crystal with weak anchoring

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• FFTW

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