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Antiferroelectric liquid crystals can be considered as a promising alternative to nematic mixtures in the area of microdisplays. Switching behaviour of the molecules has been modelled as two adjacent smectic layers. However, some studies…
Multipoles provide a systematic framework for describing the electronic structures of quantum materials from a symmetry perspective. Thermodynamic multipole moments in crystalline solids exhibit direct microscopic connections to certain…
We study theoretically the influence of the underlying domain microstructure on the electromechanical properties of ferroelectrics. Our calculations are based on a continuum approach that incorporates the long-range elastic and…
A magneto-mechanical static modeling of ferromagnetic particle based on minimization of an energy function is presented. This modeling is made of a conjugate gradient method coupled with finite element method for the mechanical problem…
This work proposes a methodology combining distributed and lumped models to simulate the current distribution in an indirect heat resistance furnace and, in particular, to compute the current to be supplied in order to obtain a desired…
Finite element modeling (FEM) is a critical tool in the design and analysis of piezoelectric devices, offering detailed numerical simulations that guide various applications. While traditionally applied to eigenfrequency analysis and…
This study presents an adaptive coupling peridynamic least-square minimization with the finite element method (PDLSM-FEM) for fracture analysis. The presented method utilizes the PDLSM modeling discontinuities while maximizing the FEM…
This paper is concerned with modeling the polarization process in ferroelectric media. We develop a thermodynamically consistent model, based on phenomenological descriptions of free energy as well as switching and saturation conditions in…
In this paper, we focus on multi-scale modeling and simulation of piezoelectric composite materials. A multi-scale model for piezoelectric composite materials under the framework of Heterogeneous Multi-scale Method(HMM) is proposed. For…
We develop a method to detect instabilities leading to nematic phases in strongly coupled metallic systems. We do so by adapting the well-known Pomeranchuk technique to a weakly coupled system of fermions in a curved asymptotically AdS…
In this article we propose and numerically implement a mathematical model for the simulation of three-dimensional semiconductor devices characterized by an heterogeneous material structure. The model consists of a system of nonlinearly…
A unified thermodynamic framework for characterization of functional materials is developed. This framework encompasses linear reversible and irreversible processes with thermal, electrical, magnetic, and/or mechanical effects coupled. The…
This work presents a practical finite element modeling strategy, the Crack Element Method (CEM), for simulating the dynamic crack propagation in two-dimensional structures. The method employs an element-splitting algorithm based on the…
Multiferroics, combining ferroelectric and magnetic orders, enable magnetoelectric (ME) coupling for advanced applications. This mini review explores single-phase and composite multiferroics, examining phenomenological, microscopic,…
In the review we briefly analyze the state-of-art in the theory of flexoelectric phenomena and analyze how significantly the flexoelectric coupling can change the polar order parameter distribution in different ferroics and liquid crystals.…
In this paper, a peridynamics-based finite element method (Peri-FEM) is proposed for the quasi-static fracture analysis, which is of the consistent computational framework with the classical finite element method (FEM). First, the integral…
We present a design through analysis workflow that enables virtual prototyping of electric devices. A CAD plugin establishes the interaction between design and analysis, allowing the preparation of analysis models and the visualization of…
We present a formalism for coupling a density functional theory-based quantum simulation to a classical simulation for the treatment of simple metallic systems. The formalism is applicable to multiscale simulations in which the part of the…
This work develops photoacoustic-based experimental methods for comprehensive characterization of multispecies mass transport from donor compartments to thin-membrane acceptor systems in perfect contact, supported by a dedicated mass…