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ArticleProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2018

Nematic liquid crystals on curved surfaces: a thin film limit.

Ingo Nitschke, Michael Nestler, Simon Praetorius, Hartmut Löwen, Axel Voigt

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Article in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Liquid crystals on deformable surfaces.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020
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Ingo NitschkeInstitut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Michael NestlerInstitut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Simon PraetoriusInstitut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Hartmut LöwenInstitut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter, Heinrich-Heine- Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Axel VoigtInstitut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany.

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Abstract

We consider a thin film limit of a Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor model. In the limiting process, we observe a continuous transition where the normal and tangential parts of the Q-tensor decouple and various intrinsic and extrinsic contributions emerge. The main properties of the thin film model, like uniaxiality and parameter phase space, are preserved in the limiting process. For the derived surface Landau-de Gennes model, we consider an

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nematic liquid crystalssurface equationthin film limit

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PMID29977124
PMCPMC6030655

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