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4/11 Mathematics Colloquium: Ferroelectric Smectic A-type phase in bent-core liquid crystals, Tiziana Giorgi (University of Alabama)
Mathematics Colloquium: Ferroelectric Smectic A-type phase in bent-core liquid crystals, Tiziana Giorgi (University of Alabama)
Thursday, April 11th, 20243:30 PM - 4:30 PM MONT 214We consider a thin-film limit for a three-dimensional phenomenological energy functional modeling the effects of a constant electric field on a bent-core liquid crystal in the ferroelectric smectic A-type phase. We show that similarly to what is seen in micromagnetics under a proper rescaling, the electric self-interaction terms give rise to boundary terms in the two-dimensional reduction. We also present numerical simulations based on the reduced model. This is a joint work with Carlos García-Cervera and Sookyung Joo.
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