Abstract
Liquid crystal phases present a large variety of physical phenomena often leading to interesting applications. Here we address issues involving nematic and smectic phases, from the point of view of modeling and analysis. These include superconductivity analogies of the phase transition from nematic to smectic A*, ferro-electricity of the smectic C* and flow defects in some special regimes. Molecular chirality plays an important role in such behaviors.
This work has been partially supported by a gram from ihe Naiional Science Foundation, contract number DMS-9704714.
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Calderer, M.C. (2002). Superconductivity Analogies, Ferroelectricity and Flow Defects in Liquid Crystals. In: Chan, T.F., Huang, Y., Tang, T., Xu, J., Ying, LA. (eds) Recent Progress in Computational and Applied PDES. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0113-8_4
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