Complas 2025

COMPLAS 2025

Electric field effects in nematic liquid crystals

di Fratta, Giovanni (University of Naples)
Slastikov, Valeriy (University of Bristol)
Zarnescu, Arghir Dani (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)

In session: 202B - Fundamentals of Defect-driven Inelasticity of Solids and Liquid Crystals II

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We consider electric fields acting on nematic liquid crystals and explore different modelling options, aiming to understand the differences between them. In particular we provide a dual formulation of the most standard approaches, reformulating the min-max problem as a minimization only problem. This is joint work with Giovanni di Fratta and Valeriy Slastikov.