Director reorientation and order reconstruction: Competing mechanisms in a nematic cell

DOI10.1007/S00161-008-0077-XMaRDI QIDQ841908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Milan Ambrožič, Fulvio Bisi, Epifanio G. Virga

Publication date 18 September 2009

Published in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-008-0077-x

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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• Numerical recipes. The art of scientific computing.
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• Surface-order forces in nematic liquid crystals

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• Surface-order forces in nematic liquid crystals
• Uniaxial symmetry in nematic liquid crystals
• Order reconstruction patterns in nematic liquid crystal wells
• Ordering effects in electric splay Freedericksz transitions
• Selecting a common direction. I: How orientational order can arise from simple contact responses between interacting cells
• Reorientation effect on the current-voltage characteristics of a nematic cell
• Moving mesh partial differential equations to describe nematic order dynamics

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• MATCONT

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