Elastic response of a nematic liquid crystal to an immersed nanowire
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We study the immersion of a ferromagnetic nanowire within a nematic liquid crystal using a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to solve the full three-dimensional equations of hydrodynamics. We present an algorithm for including a moving boundary, to simulate a nanowire, in a lattice Boltzmann simulation. The nematic imposes a torque on a wire that increases linearly with the angle between the wire and the equilibrium direction of the director field. By rotation of these nanowires, one can determine the elastic constants of the nematic.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610048,
title = {Elastic response of a nematic liquid crystal to an immersed nanowire},
author = {Christopher J. Smith and Colin Denniston},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610048},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 8 figures