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Q-tensor model for electrokinetics in nematic liquid crystals

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: A general model for a nematic electrolyte with spatially varying tensor order parameter is derived based on Onsager's variational principle. The model is verified by considering liquid crystal-enabled electro-osmotic flow around a stationary spherical dielectric particle with homeotropic anchoring.

Source: Physical Review Fluids

DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.2.053302

Authors: O. M. Tovkach, Christopher Conklin, M. Carme Calderer, Dmitry Golovaty, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Jorge Viñals, Noel J. Walkington

Institutions: University of Akron, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Kent State University, Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: DMREF/Collaborative Research: Materials engineering of chromonic and colloidal liquid crystals via mathematical modeling and simulation, Analysis of Algorithms for Simulating Macroscopic Material Response, DMREF/Collaborative Research: Materials engineering of chromonic and colloidal liquid crystals via mathematical modeling and simulation, DMREF/Collaborative Research: Materials engineering of chromonic and colloidal liquid crystals via mathematical modeling and simulation, DMREF/Collaborative Research: Materials engineering of chromonic and colloidal liquid crystals via mathematical modeling and simulation

OpenAlex ID: W2594611503

FWCI: 0.728

Cites: 53

Cited by: 24

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