Année 2021-2022

Variational Convergence of Liquid Crystal Energies to Line and Surface Energies

par Dominik Stantejsky

Europe/Paris
Université Paris Saclay

Université Paris Saclay

Description

In this talk I will present a variational convergence result originating in the Landau-de Gennes model for nematic liquid crystals describing the Saturn ring effect around a spherical particle with external magnetic field. I will describe some properties of the limit functional and explain how this result can be generalized to non-spherical and in particular non-convex particles.