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Kinetic derivation of a compressible Leslie--Ericksen equation for rarified calamitic gases
Patrick E. Farrell, Giovanni Russo, Umberto Zerbinati
Nematic ordering describes the phenomenon where anisotropic molecules tend to locally align, like matches in a matchbox. This ordering can arise in solids (as nematic elastomers),…
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When rational functions meet virtual elements: The lightning Virtual Element Method
M. L. Trezzi, U. Zerbinati
We propose a lightning Virtual Element Method that eliminates the stabilisation term by actually computing the virtual component of the local VEM basis functions using a lightning…