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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 474, Issue 2214, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2017.0686
Keywords
biophysics; materials science; mathematical modelling
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- DFG [Lo481/20, Vo899/19]
- JSC [HDR06]
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We consider a thin film limit of a Landau-do Gennes Q-tensor model. In the limiting process, we observe a continuous transition where the normal and tangential parts of the Q-tensor decouple and various intrinsic and extrinsic contributions emerge. The main properties of the thin film model, like uniaxiality and parameter phase space, are preserved in the limiting process. For the derived surface Landau-dc Gennes model, we consider an L-2-gradient flow. The resulting tensor-valued surface partial differential equation is numerically solved to demonstrate realizations of the tight coupling of elastic and bulk free energy with geometric properties.
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