Radial configurations of smectic A materials and focal conics

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00159-6zbMath0954.76004OpenAlexW2167694934MaRDI QIDQ1809413

Karl Voss, M. Carme Calderer, Chun Liu

Publication date: 13 February 2000

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2789(98)00159-6

zbMATH Keywords

diskstability of radial solutionsfocal conic solutionsradial configurationssmectic A liquid crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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On Two Nonlinear Biharmonic Evolution Equations: Existence, Uniqueness and Stability ⋮ Numerical Simulations on Two Nonlinear Biharmonic Evolution Equations ⋮ Smectic A liquid crystal configurations with interface defects ⋮ Asymptotics of minimizers of variational problems involving curl functional ⋮ Mathematical developments in the study of smectic A liquid crystals ⋮ Studies of layering and chiralit of smectic \(A^*\) liquid crystals

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• On the stability of radial solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation
• Ericksen's Bar and Modeling of the Smectic A--Nematic Phase Transition
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