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Ordering in Confined Two-Dimensional Nematic Systems: Mesoscopic Simulations Based on Different Mean-Field Potentials
Humberto Híjar, Apala Majumdar
We use nematic Multi-particle Collision Dynamics (N-MPCD) simulations to study confined nematic liquid crystals in square domains, with three distinct mean-field potentials: the cl…
Nematic equilibria in isosceles triangles: The effects of edge length and apex angle on solution landscapes in a reduced Landau-de Gennes framework
Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Yucen Han, Thuriya Alhinai +1
We study equilibrium configurations of nematic liquid crystals confined to two-dimensional isosceles triangles, subject to tangent boundary conditions. This toy problem is motivate…
Colloidal nanoparticles in liquid crystals: Bulk properties, biaxiality and untwisting in cholesterics
Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Fatimah Almutari, Apala Majumdar
We study the effects of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) in liquid crystal samples in the dilute limit, in a Landau--de Gennes theoretical framework. The effects of the suspended NPs…
Solution landscapes of ferronematics in microfluidic channels
James Dalby, Apala Majumdar
We study solution landscapes for ferronematics, i.e., a dilute suspension of magnetic nanoparticles in a nematic liquid crystal host, in a one-dimensional (1D) channel geometry. Ad…