4 papers
A study of ferronematic thin films including a stray field energy
Shilpa Dutta, James Dalby, Apala Majumdar +1
Ferronematic materials are colloidal suspensions of magnetic particles in liquid crystals. They are complex materials with potential applications in display technologies, sensors,…
A Multi-Faceted Study of Nematic Order Reconstruction in Microfluidic Channels
James Dalby, Yucen Han, Apala Majumdar +1
We study order reconstruction (OR) solutions in the Beris-Edwards framework for nematodynamics, for both passive and active nematic flows in a microfluidic channel. OR solutions ex…
Uniaxial versus Biaxial Pathways in One-Dimensional Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Yucen Han, James Dalby, Benjamin MGD Carter +2
Cholesteric liquid crystals exhibit great morphological richness of static metastable states. Understanding the transitions between such states is key for the development of switch…
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…