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Kinematics and dynamics of disclination lines in three-dimensional nematics
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
An exact kinematic law for the motion of disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals as a function of the tensor order parameter is derived. Unlike other order param…
Equilibrium morphology of tactoids in elastically anisotropic nematics
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
We study two dimensional tactoids in nematic liquid crystals by using a -tensor representation. A bulk free energy of the Maier-Saupe form with eigenvalue constraints o…
The propagation of infection fronts in spatially distributed compartment models in epidemiology
Joseph Rudnick, David Jasnow, Jorge Vinals
Spatio-temporal extensions of familiar compartment models for disease transmission incorporating diffusive behavior, or interactions between individuals at separate locations, are…
Elasticity versus phase field driven motion in the phase field crystal model
Amit Acharya, Luiza Angheluta, Jorge Vinals
The inherent inconsistency in identifying the phase field in the phase field crystal Theory with the material mass and, simultaneously, with material distortion is discussed. In it…
Singularity identification for the characterization of topology, geometry, and motion of nematic disclination lines
Cody D. Schimming, Jorge Viñals
We introduce a characterization of disclination lines in three dimensional nematic liquid crystals as a tensor quantity related to the so called rotation vector around the line. Th…