Thesis
Computational and analytical aspects of energy minimisation problems in cholesteric, ferronematic and smectic liquid crystals
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Liquid crystals are widely used in display devices and their indispensable applications have driven more than a century of scientific investigations. They are of great interest in physics, for their striking defect structures, e.g., defect walls and focal conics in smectics; and in mathematics, for the questions arising in their modelling and analysis. Two successful mathematical theories are the Oseen--Frank (vector-based) and Landau--de Gennes (tensor-based) theories for nematics. In the...
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+ Farrell, P
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-1241-7060
+ Suli, E
- Role:
- Examiner
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-0812-6105
+ Calderer, MC
- Role:
- Examiner
+ National University of Defense Technology
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007085
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Deposit date:
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2021-07-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Xia, J
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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