The switching properties of nematic liquid crystals under electrical and mechanical stresses
play a fundamental role in the design and fabrication of electro-optical devices. Depending …

A strong electric field is able to induce transient and/or local biaxial states within a nematic
calamitic phase, and the resultant nematic texture can be identified by the Landau–de …

Nematic molecules confined in an asymmetric π cell and subjected to strong electric fields
exhibit textural distortions involving nematic order variations, described by the Landau-de …

This paper describes a robust and efficient numerical scheme for solving the system of six
coupled partial differential equations which arises when using Q-tensor theory to model the …

Nematic liquid crystals are aggregates of calamitic molecules and most related experimental
phenomena are described well by their mean molecular orientation, ie by the director, and …

The properties of liquid crystals can be modelled using an order parameter which describes
the variability of the local orientation of rod-like molecules. Defects in the director field can …

Electrically induced order variations, occurring in the microseconds timescale, in nematic
liquid crystals are framed within the Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor theory. We provide a …

Intense electric fields applied to an asymmetric π-cell containing a nematic liquid crystal
subjected to strong mechanical stresses induce distortions that are relaxed through a fast …

This paper illustrates the use of an adaptive finite element method to solve a non-linear
singularly perturbed boundary value problem which arises from a one-dimensional Q-tensor …

This article illustrates the use of moving mesh methods for solving partial differential
equation (PDE) problems in Q-tensor theory of liquid crystals. We present the results of an …