3 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Active smectics on a sphere
Michael Nestler, Simon Praetorius, Zhi-Feng Huang +2
The dynamics of active smectic liquid crystals confined on a spherical surface is explored through an active phase field crystal model. Starting from an initially randomly perturbe…
cond-mat.soft2020
Defects in active nematics: algorithms for identification and tracking
Dennis Wenzel, Michael Nestler, Sebastian Reuther +2
The growing interest in active nematics and the emerging evidence of the relevance of topological defects in biology asks for reliable data analysis tools to identify, classify and…
cond-mat.soft2019
Properties of surface Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor models
Michael Nestler, Ingo Nitschke, Hartmut Löwen +1
Uniaxial nematic liquid crystals whose molecular orientation is subjected to a tangential anchoring on a curved surface offer a non trivial interplay between the geometry and the t…