Analysis of a model for bent-core liquid crystals columnar phases

DOI10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.2001zbMath1446.76068OpenAlexW2551560060MaRDI QIDQ258275

Tiziana Giorgi, Feras Yousef

Publication date: 10 March 2016

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.2001

zbMATH Keywords

energy minimization\(\Gamma\)-convergenceliquid crystalsbent-core moleculescolumnar phases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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