Front Propagation at the Nematic-Isotropic Transition Temperature

DOI10.1137/15M1039250zbMath1351.49014arXiv1505.06143MaRDI QIDQ5740325

Amy Spicer, Apala Majumdar, Paul A. Milewski

Publication date: 26 July 2016

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06143

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsLandau-de Gennes energy functionalnematic-isotropic interfacesnematic-isotropic temperature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45)

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