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We investigate, using experiments and numerical simulations, the distortions and the alignment of skyrmions in the liquid crystal under external flows for a range of average flow velocities. The simulations are based on the Landau-de Gennes…

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

The coupled nonlinear space fractional Ginzburg-Landau (CNLSFGL) equations with the fractional Laplacian have been widely used to model the dynamical processes in a fractal media with fractional dispersion. Due to the existence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Hengfei Ding , Yuxin Zhang , Qian Yi

This paper presents a 3D mesh adaptivity strategy on unstructured tetrahedral meshes by a posteriori error estimates based on metrics, studied on the case of a nonlinear finite element minimization scheme for the Landau-de Gennes free…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Iztok Bajc , Frédéric Hecht , Slobodan Žumer

This work uses a linear relaxation method to develop efficient numerical schemes for the time-fractional Allen-Cahn and Cahn-Hilliard equations. The L1+-CN formula is used to discretize the fractional derivative, and an auxiliary variable…

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A second order accurate numerical scheme is proposed and implemented for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, which models magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials, with large damping parameters. The main advantages of this method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yongyong Cai , Jingrun Chen , Cheng Wang , Changjian Xie

We study the hydrodynamics of compressible flows of active liquid crystals in the Beris-Edwards hydrodynamics framework, using the Landau-de Gennes $Q$-tensor order parameter to describe liquid crystalline ordering. We prove the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Apala Majumdar , Dehua Wang , Rongfang Zhang

First-order energy dissipative schemes in time are available in literature for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations, but second-order ones are still in lack. This work proposes novel second-order discretization in time and finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Jie Ding , Shenggao Zhou

Multiple equilibrium states arise in many physical systems, including various types of liquid crystal structures. Having the ability to reliably compute such states enables more accurate physical analysis and understanding of experimental…

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We introduce and employ two QM:QM schemes (a quantum mechanical method embedded into another quantum mechanical method) and report their performance for the X23 set of molecular crystals. We furthermore present the theory to calculate the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Oleksandr A. Loboda , Grygoriy A. Dolgonos , A. Daniel Boese

An amalgamate of nematic liquid crystals and active matter, referred to as living liquid crystals, is a promising self-healing material with futuristic applications for targeted delivery of information and micro-cargo. We provide a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Aditya Vats , Pradeep Kumar Yadav , Varsha Banerjee , Sanjay Puri

In this paper we consider unconditionally energy stable numerical schemes for the nonstationary 3D magneto-micropolar equations that describes the microstructure of rigid microelements in electrically conducting fluid flow under some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Hailong Qiu

Disclinations lines play a key role in many physical processes, from the fracture of materials to the formation of the early universe. Achieving versatile control over disclinations is key to developing novel electro-optical devices,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-28 Alvin Modin , Biswarup Ash , Kelsey Ishimoto , Robert L. Leheny , Francesca Serra , Hillel Aharoni

Several relaxation approximations to partial differential equations have been recently proposed. Examples include conservation laws, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, convection-diffusion problems, gas dynamics problems. The present paper focuses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fausto Cavalli , Giovanni Naldi , Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice

In this paper, we introduce and analyze a class of numerical schemes that demonstrate remarkable superiority in terms of efficiency, the preservation of positivity, energy stability, and high-order precision to solve the time-dependent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Waixiang Cao , Yuzhe Qin , Minqiang Xu

Liquid crystal networks combine the orientational order of liquid crystals with the elastic properties of polymer networks, leading to a vast application potential in the field of responsive coatings, e.g., for haptic feedback,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-28 Guido L. A. Kusters , Inge P. Verheul , Nicholas B. Tito , Paul van der Schoot , Cornelis Storm

Using Landau-de Gennes effective theory for nematic liquid crystals we analyse the structure of rectilinear n=1/2 smooth disclination line in the case of equal elastic constants. We find that at certain temperature there is an exact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 H. Arodź , R. Pełka

The goal of this work is to rigorously study the zero inertia limit for the Q-tensor model of liquid crystals. Though present in the original derivation of the Ericksen-Leslie equations for nematic liquid crystals, the inertia term of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Max Hirsch , Franziska Weber , Yukun Yue

Understanding dissipation in 2D quantum many-body systems is a remarkably difficult open challenge. Here we show how numerical simulations for this problem are possible by means of a tensor network algorithm that approximates steady-states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-27 Augustine Kshetrimayum , Hendrik Weimer , Roman Orus

In this paper, we propose a systematic way of liquid crystal modeling to build connection between microscopic theory and macroscopic theory. A new Q-tensor theory based on Onsager's molecular theory which leads to liquid crystals with…

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