A Finite Element Method for Nematic Liquid Crystals with Variable Degree of Orientation
DOI10.1137/15M103844XzbMath1453.82090arXiv1601.00037OpenAlexW2232537544MaRDI QIDQ5346012
Shawn W. Walker, Wujun Zhang, Ricardo H. Nochetto
Publication date: 8 June 2017
Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00037
Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in statistical mechanics (82M10)
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