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ESAIM-CONTROL OPTIMISATION AND CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS
卷 27, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2021093
关键词
Liquid crystals; Landau-de Gennes; Gamma-convergence; Cubic microlattices
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO through BCAM Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation [SEV-2013-0323-17-1 (BES-2017-080630)]
- AEI/FEDER, UE [MTM2017-82184-R]
The study examines the behavior of embedded particle lattice in a nematic host, considering both cubic symmetry and loss of cubic symmetry cases. By adjusting the surface anchoring energy density and corresponding coefficients, the phase transition temperature can be influenced. Additionally, loss of cubic symmetry introduces an additional term in the free energy functional, describing a change in alignment preference of liquid crystal particles.
We consider a Landau-de Gennes model for a connected cubic lattice scaffold in a nematic host, in a dilute regime. We analyse the homogenised limit for both cases in which the lattice of embedded particles presents or not cubic symmetry and then we compute the free effective energy of the composite material. In the cubic symmetry case, we impose different types of surface anchoring energy densities, such as quartic, Rapini-Papoular or more general versions, and, in this case, we show that we can tune any coefficient from the corresponding bulk potential, especially the phase transition temperature. In the case with loss of cubic symmetry, we prove similar results in which the effective free energy functional has now an additional term, which describes a change in the preferred alignment of the liquid crystal particles inside the domain. Moreover, we compute the rate of convergence for how fast the surface energies converge to the homogenised one and also for how fast the minimisers of the free energies tend to the minimiser of the homogenised free energy.
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