Publications related to Equivalent Theories of Liquid Crystal Dynamics

Local vs. cooperative: Unraveling glass transition mechanisms with SEER

Which phenomenon slows down the dynamics in supercooled liquids and turns them into glasses is a long-standing question of condensed matter. Most popular theories posit that as the temperature decreases, many events must occur in a coordinated fashion on a ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Maximizing friction by liquid flow clogging in confinement

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, Xiaoqi Zhang, Shan Chen

In the nanoscale regime, flow behaviors for liquids show qualitative deviations from bulk expectations. In this work, we reveal by molecular dynamics simulations that plug flow down to nanoscale induces molecular friction that leads to a new flow structure ...

SPRINGER2022

Modeling of percolation of globular-equiaxed grains in Al-Cu alloys

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Luc Desbiolles, Christophe Mondoux

A new mesoscopic model able to describe percolation of globular-equiaxed grains, highly relevant for hot tearing formation in castings, has been developed. This model is inspired from the granular model of Sistaninia et al. [1-5] that considers polyhedral ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Dynamic Tuning of Surface Plasmon Polaritons via Thermally Controlled Liquid Crystals

Hatice Altug, Arif Engin Cetin, Shyamsunder Erramilli, Min Huang

We present a thermally controlled plasmonic substrate in contact with a liquid crystal offering spectral tunings similar to 18.7 nm within similar to 18 degrees C at LC nematic phase. Nematic/ isotropic transition also enables similar to 12 nm spectral cha ...

IEEE2014

Numerical simulation of 3D free surface flows, with multiple incompressible immiscible phases. Applications to impulse waves

Marco Picasso, Alexandre Caboussat

A numerical method for the solution to the density-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations modeling the flow of N immiscible incompressible liquid phases with a free surface is proposed. It allows to model the flow of an arbitrary number of liquid ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Anharmonicity, solvation forces, and resolution in atomic force microscopy at the solid-liquid interface

Kislon Voitchovsky

Solid-liquid interfaces are central to nanoscale science and technology and control processes as diverse as self-assembly, heterogeneous catalysis, wetting, electrochemistry, or protein function. Experimentally, measuring the structure and dynamics of soli ...

American Physical Society2013

Minimal State Representation for Open Fluid-Fluid Reaction Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Philippe Müllhaupt, Michael Amrhein, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt

Reaction systems are typically represented by first-principles models that describe the evolution of the states (typically concentrations, volume and temperature) by means of conservation equations of differential nature and constitutive equations of algeb ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012

The helicity and vorticity of liquid-crystal flows

François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci

We present explicit expressions of the helicity conservation in nematic liquid-crystal flows, for both the Ericksen-Leslie and Landau-de Gennes theories. This is done by using a minimal coupling argument that leads to an Euler-like equation for a modified ...

2011

Light modulation enabled by liquid crystal microflows

Demetri Psaltis, Andreas Vasdekis, Julien Cuennet, Luciano De Sio

In a previous paper, 1 we proposed an optofluidic modulator based on peristaltic flow. A microchannel made of polydimethylsiloxane is filled with nematic liquid crystal molecules that align homeotropically in the steady state. Once we apply a periodic peri ...

2011

Etude des morphologies de solidification dans les alliages aluminium-zinc

Aluminum zinc alloys constitute an important class of wrought alloys, the so-called 7000 series, and are also widely used as anti-corrosion coatings of steel sheets. They are also interesting from a more fundamental point of view because zinc, a hexagonal ...

EPFL2008