Numerical study of liquid crystal elastomers by a mixed finite element method
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) present features not found in ordinary elastic materials, such as semisoft elasticity and the related stripe domain phenomenon. In this paper, the two-dimensional (2D) Bladon-Terentjev-Warner (BTW) model and the one-constant Oseen-Frank energy expression are combined...
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2011
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