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Morpho -- A programmable environment for shape optimization and shapeshifting problems
Chaitanya Joshi, Daniel Goldstein, Cole Wennerholm +6
An emerging theme across many domains of science and engineering is materials that change shape, often dramatically. Determining their structure involves solving a shape optimizati…
Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms
David B. Emerson, Patrick E. Farrell, James H. Adler +2
We study the problem of a cholesteric liquid crystal confined to an elliptical channel. The system is geometrically frustrated because the cholesteric prefers to adopt a uniform ra…
Competition of Lattice and Basis for Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Andrew DeBenedictis, Candy Anquetil-Deck, Douglas J. Cleaver +4
Due to elastic anisotropy, two-dimensional patterning of substrates can promote weak azimuthal alignment of adjacent nematic liquid crystals. Here, we consider how such alignment c…