Revisiting the two-dimensional defect-free azimuthal nematic equilibrium on an annulus
We study the azimuthal defect-free nematic state on a two-dimensional annulus within a simplified and reduced two-dimensional Landau–de Gennes model for nematic liquid crystals. We perform a detailed asymptotic analysis of the instabilities of the defect-free state in terms of a dimensionless materi...
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2017
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