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Uniaxial nematic liquid crystals are modelled in the Oseen-Frank theory through a unit vector field $n$. This theory has the apparent drawback that it does not respect the head-to-tail symmetry in which $n$ should be equivalent to -$n$.…
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We introduce a comprehensive numerical framework to generically infer the emergent macroscopic properties of uniaxial nematic and cholesteric phases from that of their microscopic constituent mesogens. This approach, based on the full…
We propose a robust and efficient augmented Lagrangian-type preconditioner for solving linearizations of the Oseen-Frank model arising in cholesteric liquid crystals. By applying the augmented Lagrangian method, the Schur complement of the…
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