Analysis and simulations of the Chen-Lubensky energy for smectic liquid crystals: onset of undulations

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56)