Finite element approximation of nematic liquid crystal flows using a saddle-point structure

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1686-1706

  Badia, Santiago ^a   Guillén González, Francisco ^b   Gutiérrez Santacreu, Juan Vicente ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING CIMNE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ericksen Leslie problem; Finite element methods; Ginzburg Landau problem; Nematic liquid crystals; Saddle point problems

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

ERICKSEN-LESLIE PROBLEM; FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; FINITE-ELEMENT SCHEMES; GINZBURG-LANDAU; GINZBURG-LANDAU PROBLEM; IMPLICIT ALGORITHM; POINT STRUCTURE; SADDLE POINT; SADDLE POINT PROBLEMS; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78650568203     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.033     Document Type: Article

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