A New Algorithm for Computing Liquid Crystal Stable Configurations: The Harmonic Mapping Case

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1708-1726

  Alouges, Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugate gradient method; Finite differences; Harmonic maps; Nematic liquid crystals; Nonconvex optimization; Relaxation method; Uzawa method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000631032     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036142994264249     Document Type: Article

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