Multistability in planar liquid crystal wells by Luo, C, Majumdar, A, Erban, R

“…A planar bistable liquid crystal device, reported in Tsakonas, is modeled within the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals. …”

The dynamics of bistable liquid crystal wells by Luo, C, Majumdar, A, Erban, R

“…A planar bistable liquid crystal device, reported in Tsakonas et al. [27], is modelled within the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals. …”

Multistability in planar liquid crystal wells. by Luo, C, Majumdar, A, Erban, R

“…A planar bistable liquid crystal device, reported in Tsakonas et al. [Appl. …”

The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals: Analysis, Computation and Applications by Majumdar, A

Defects in liquid crystals: mathematical and experimental studies by Lewis, A

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Liquid Crystal Theory and Modelling Discussion Meeting by Majumdar, A

“…In this report, we describe the main highlights of the international, multidisciplinary "Liquid Crystal Theory and Modelling, Discussion Meeting'' held in Oxford from the 29th-30th October 2009. …”

Transitions through critical temperatures in nematic liquid crystals. by Majumdar, A, Ockendon, J, Howell, P, Surovyatkina, E

“…We obtain estimates for critical nematic liquid crystal (LC) temperatures under the action of a slowly varying temperature-dependent control variable. …”

Global existence and regularity of solutions for active liquid crystals by Chen, G, Majumdar, A, Wang, D, Zhang, R

“…We study the hydrodynamics of active liquid crystals in the Beris–Edwards hydrodynamic framework with the Landau–de Gennes Q-tensor order parameter to describe liquid crystalline ordering. …”

Colloidal liquid crystals in rectangular confinement: theory and experiment. by Lewis, A, Garlea, I, Alvarado, J, Dammone, O, Howell, P, Majumdar, A, Mulder, B, Lettinga, M, Koenderink, G, Aarts, D

“…We theoretically and experimentally study nematic liquid crystal equilibria within shallow rectangular wells. …”

Transitions through Critical Temperatures in Nematic Liquid Crystals by Majumdar, A, Ockendon, J, Howell, P, Surovyatkina, E

“…We obtain ‘dynamic’ estimates for critical nematic liquid crystal (LC) temperatures with a slowly varying temperature-dependent control variable. …”

From molecular to continuum modelling of bistable liquid crystal devices by Robinson, M, Luo, C, Farrell, P, Erban, R, Majumdar, A

Global weak solutions for the compressive active liquid crystal system by Chen, G, Majumdar, A, Wang, D, Zhang, R

“…We study the hydrodynamics of compressible flows of active liquid crystals in the Beris--Edwards hydrodynamics framework, using the Landau--de Gennes $Q$-tensor order parameter to describe liquid crystalline ordering. …”

Remarks on the Q-tensor model for equilibrium liquid crystal configurations by Ball, J, Majumdar, A

“…We study minimizers of the Landau-De Gennes energy functional for liquid crystals in the biaxial and uniaxial cases. We derive the corresponding equilibrium equations and make predictions about the equilibrium order parameters. …”

Nematic liquid crystals : from Maier-Saupe to a continuum theory by Ball, J, Majumdar, A

Nematic Liquid Crystals: From Maier-Saupe to a Continuum Theory by Ball, J, Majumdar, A

The Landau-de Gennes theory of nematic liquid crystals: Uniaxiality versus Biaxiality by Majumdar, A

“…We study small energy solutions within the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. …”

Equilibrium order parameters of nematic liquid crystals in the Landau-De Gennes theory by Majumdar, A

“… We study equilibrium liquid crystal configurations in three-dimensional domains, within the continuum Landau-De Gennes theory. …”

Landau-De Gennes theory of nematic liquid crystals: the Oseen-Frank limit and beyond by Majumdar, A, Zarnescu, A

“… We study global minimizers of a continuum Landau-De Gennes energy functional for nematic liquid crystals, in three-dimensional domains, subject to uniaxial boundary conditions. …”

Symmetry of uniaxial global Landau-de Gennes minimizers in the theory of nematic liquid crystals by Henao, D, Majumdar, A

“…We extend the recent radial symmetry results by Pisante [23] and Millot & Pisante [19] (who show that all entire solutions of the vector-valued Ginzburg-Landau equations in superconductivity theory, in the three-dimensional space, are comprised of the well-known class of equivariant solutions) to the Landau-de Gennes framework in the theory of nematic liquid crystals. In the low temperature limit, we obtain a characterization of global Landau-de Gennes minimizers, in the restricted class of uniaxial tensors, in terms of the well-known radial-hedgehog solution. …”

Tangent unit-vector fields: nonabelian homotopy invariants and the Dirichlet energy by Majumdar, A, Robbins, J, Zyskin, M

“…These results have applications for the theoretical modelling of nematic liquid crystal devices. …”