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Variational and numerical analysis of a -tensor model for smectic-A liquid crystals
Jingmin Xia, Patrick E. Farrell
We analyse an energy minimisation problem recently proposed for modelling smectic-A liquid crystals. The optimality conditions give a coupled nonlinear system of partial differenti…
Structural Landscapes in Geometrically Frustrated Smectics
Jingmin Xia, Scott MacLachlan, Timothy J. Atherton +1
A phenomenological free energy model is proposed to describe the behavior of smectic liquid crystals, an intermediate phase that exhibits orientational order and layering at the mo…
One-dimensional ferronematics in a channel: order reconstruction, bifurcations and multistability
James Dalby, Patrick E. Farrell, Apala Majumdar +1
We study a model system with nematic and magnetic orders, within a channel geometry modelled by an interval, . The system is characterised by a tensor-valued nematic order…