2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Thermodynamics of MacMillan's liquid crystal model
Hervé Le Dret, Annie Raoult
We study liquid crystal models with bulk free energy from the point of view of the second law of thermodynamics. We formulate these models as objective internal variable models. Ex…
math.AP2017
On problems in the calculus of variations in increasingly elongated domains
Hervé Le Dret, Amira Mokrane
We consider minimization problems in the calculus of variations set in a sequence of domains the size of which tends to infinity in certain directions and such that the data only d…