The Oseen-Frank theory of liquid crystals

<p>This thesis concerns the minimization of the Oseen-Frank bulk free energy. The structure is as following: in Chapter 1, we will give a brief introduction to the Oseen-Frank theory and the Landau-de Gennes theory. Also we will introduce some established results related to the two theories...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, L
Other Authors: Ball, J
Format: Thesis
Published: 2019