On a curvature surface energy for nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/S002050050059zbMath0969.76007OpenAlexW2090612468MaRDI QIDQ1382924

Sandro Faetti, Epifanio G. Virga

Publication date: 7 October 2001

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002050050059

zbMATH Keywords

edgesballnematic liquid crystalequilibrium equationsdropboundedness from belowboundary curvaturebulk elastic energycurvature surface energyframe-indifferent density of surface energyfull energy functionalsurface null Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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