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Global Existence and Regularity for the Active Liquid Crystal System
Gui-Qiang Chen, Apala Majumdar, Dehua Wang +1
In this paper, we study the active hydrodynamics, described in the Q-tensor liquid crystal framework. We prove the existence of global weak solutions in dimension two and three, wi…
Front Propagation at the Isotropic Nematic Transition Temperature
Apala Majumdar, Paul A. Milewski, Amy Spicer
We study the gradient flow model for the Landau-de Gennes energy functional for nematic liquid crystals at the nematic-isotropic transition temperature on prototype geometries. We…
Nematic equilibria on a two-dimensional annulus: defects and energies
Alexander H. Lewis, Peter D. Howell, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts +1
We study planar nematic equilibria on a two-dimensional annulus with strong and weak tangent anchoring, within the Oseen-Frank and Landau-de Gennes theories for nematic liquid crys…
Free energy pathways of a Multistable Liquid Crystal Device
Halim Kusumaatmaja, Apala Majumdar
The planar bistable device [Tsakonas \textit{et al., Appl. Phys. Lett.}, 2007, {\textbf{90}}, 111913] is known to have two distinct classes of stable equilibria: the diagonal and r…