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Interaction energies in nematic liquid crystal suspensions
Lia Bronsard, Xavier Lamy, Dominik Stantejsky +1
We establish, as , an asymptotic expansion for the minimal Dirichlet energy of -valued maps outside a finite number of three-dimensional particles of size …
Anisotropic Surface Tensions for Phase Transitions in Periodic Media
Rustum Choksi, Irene Fonseca, Jessica Lin +1
This paper establishes bounds on the homogenized surface tension for a heterogeneous Allen-Cahn energy functional in a periodic medium. The approach is based on relating the homoge…
Homogenization of quasi-crystalline functionals via two-scale-cut-and-project convergence
Rita Ferreira, Irene Fonseca, Raghavendra Venkatraman
We consider a homogenization problem associated with quasi-crystalline multiple integrals of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} u_\varepsilon\in L^p(Ω;\mathbb{R}^d) \mapsto…
Bounds on the energy of a soft cubic ferromagnet with large magnetostriction
Raghavendra Venkatraman, Vivekanand Dabade, Richard D. James
We complete the analysis initiated in [5] on the micromagnetics of cubic ferromagnets in which the role of magnetostriction is significant. We prove ansatz-free lower bounds for th…
A Model Problem for Nematic-Isotropic Transitions with Highly Disparate Elastic Constants
Dmitry Golovaty, Michael Novack, Peter Sternberg +1
We analyze a model problem based on highly disparate elastic constants that we propose in order to understand corners and cusps that form on the boundary between the nematic and is…