Geometric variational methods for liquid crystals
Event details
| Date | 13.04.2015 › 15.04.2015 |
| Hour | 10:00 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | François Gay-Balmaz |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
In this course I will introduce a geometric approach recently developed for the description of complex fluids, including liquid crystals and superfluids. This approach is based on various tools from geometric mechanics such as reduction by symmetries and variational principles, exploited in an infinite dimensional setting. This geometric framework allows us to solve an open problem concerning two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie theory and the Eringen micropolar theory. We will show that these theories are compatible, the latter being an extension of the former.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- CIB
Contact
- Valérie Krier