On plane defects in nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation

DOI10.1007/BF01125694zbMath0770.76007OpenAlexW1979352680MaRDI QIDQ1204052

Diego Roccato, Epifanio G. Virga

Publication date: 18 February 1993

Published in: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01125694

zbMATH Keywords

functionalvariational problemtotal free energysingular minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15)

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