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We construct the molecular model and the tensor model for the dynamics of the nematic phases of bent-core molecules and star molecules in incompressible fluid. We start from the molecular interaction and the molecule--fluid friction, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-09 Jie Xu , Pingwen Zhang

In this paper, we prove the global well posedness and the decay estimates for a $\mathbb Q$-tensor model of nematic liquid crystals in $\mathbb R^N$, $N \geq 3$. This system is coupled system by the Navier-Stokes equations with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Miho Murata , Yoshihiro Shibata

We carry out an asymptotic analysis of a thin nematic liquid crystal in which one elastic constant dominates over the others, namely \begin{align} \label{energyab} \inf E_\varepsilon(u)\quad\mbox{where}\quad E_\varepsilon(u) :=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Dmitry Golovaty , Peter Sternberg , Raghavendra Venkatraman

In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem of the Poiseuille flow of full Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystals. The model is a coupled system of a parabolic equation for the velocity and a quasilinear wave equation for the…

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We investigate prototypical profiles of point defects in two dimensional liquid crystals within the framework of Landau-de Gennes theory. Using boundary conditions characteristic of defects of index $k/2$, we find a critical point of the…

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Tensor models play an increasingly prominent role in many fields, notably in machine learning. In several applications, such as community detection, topic modeling and Gaussian mixture learning, one must estimate a low-rank signal from a…

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Random tensor models can be used as combinatorial devices to generate Euclidean dynamical triangulations. A physical continuum limit of dynamical triangulations requires a suitable generalization of the double-scaling limit of random…

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We present a compendium of numerical simulation techniques, based on tensor network methods, aiming to address problems of many-body quantum mechanics on a classical computer. The core setting of this anthology are lattice problems in low…

By analyzing elastic theory for nematic liquid crystals, we distinguish three regimes of elastic constants. In one regime, the Ericksen inequalities are satisfied, and the ground state of the director field is uniform. In a second regime,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-08 Cheng Long , Jonathan V. Selinger

A mathematical model for the poroelastic materials (PEM) with the variable volume is developed in multidimensional case. Governing equations of the model are constructed using the continuity equations, which reflect the well-known physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Roman Cherniha , Vasyl' Davydovych , Joanna Stachowska-Pietka , Jacek Waniewski

A computational study of morphological instabilities of a two-dimensional nematic front under directional growth was performed using a Landau-de Gennes type quadrupolar tensor order parameter model for the first-order isotropic/nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-20 Ezequiel R. Soulé , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir. Alejandro D. Rey

A micrometer-scale elastic shell immersed in a nematic liquid crystal may be deformed by the host if the cost of deformation is comparable to the cost of elastic deformation of the nematic. Moreover, such inclusions interact and form chains…

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This paper explores the application of tensor networks (TNs) to the simulation of material deformations within the framework of linear elasticity. Material simulations are essential computational tools extensively used in both academic…

We establish the subconvergence of weak solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau approximation to global-in-time weak solutions of the Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystals on the torus $\mathbb{T}^2$. The key argument is a variation of…

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In this paper we consider a mathematical model which describes the equilibrium of two elastic rods attached to a nonlinear spring. We derive the variational formulation of the model which is in the form of an elliptic quasivariational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Anna Ochal , Wiktor Prządka , Mircea Sofonea , Domingo A. Tarzia

We investigate the solution landscape of a reduced Landau--de Gennes model for nematic liquid crystals on a two-dimensional hexagon at a fixed temperature, as a function of $\lambda$---the edge length. This is a generic example for reduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Yucen Han , Jianyuan Yin , Pingwen Zhang , Apala Majumdar , Lei Zhang

We describe a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate liquid crystal hydrodynamics. The equations of motion are written in terms of a tensor order parameter. This allows both the isotropic and the nematic phases to be considered. Backflow…

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We review the recent literature on the simulation of the structure and deformation of amorphous glasses, including oxide and metallic glasses. We consider simulations at different length and time scales. At the nanometer scale, we review…

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