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Computational modeling of tactoid dynamics in chromonic liquid crystals
Chiqun Zhang, Amit Acharya, Noel J. Walkington +1
Motivated by recent experiments, the isotropic-nematic phase transition in chromonic liquid crystals is studied. As temperature decreases, nematic nuclei nucleate, grow, and coales…
Q-tensor model for electrokinetics in nematic liquid crystals
Oleh M. Tovkach, Christopher Conklin, M. Carme Calderer +4
We use a variational principle to derive a mathematical model for a nematic electrolyte in which the liquid crystalline component is described in terms of a second-rank order tenso…
A non-traditional view on the modeling of nematic disclination dynamics
Chiqun Zhang, Xiaohan Zhang, Amit Acharya +2
Nonsingular disclination dynamics in a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal is modeled within a mathematical framework where the kinematics is a direct extension of the classical way of…