Solution landscapes of the simplified Ericksen–Leslie model and its comparisonwith the reduced Landau–deGennes model
Solution landscapes of the simplified Ericksen–Leslie model and its comparisonwith the reduced Landau–deGennes model
We investigate the solution landscapes of a simplified Ericksen–Leslie (sEL) vector model for nematic liquid crystals, confined in a two-dimensional square domain with tangent boundary conditions. An efficient numerical algorithm is developed to construct the solution landscapes by utilizing the symmetry properties of the model and the domain. Since the …