KCI등재
학술저널
A STUDY OF DEFECTS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS ON A PUNCTURED DISK
A STUDY OF DEFECTS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS ON A PUNCTURED DISK
- 충청수학회
- Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
- Volume 36, No. 1
- : KCI등재
- 2023.02
- 25 - 37 (13 pages)
DOI : 10.14403/jcms.2023.36.1.25
In this paper, we consider the Landau-de Gennes energy functional for liquid crystals confined in a thin cylindrical domain and study defects of molecular directions in the system by applications of external fields.
1. Introduction
2. Existence of minimizers
3. The Euler-Lagrange equations and the radial external electric field
4. Results of computational experiments
5. Conclusion
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