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A free discontinuity model for smectic thin films

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Published in 2022 at "Liquid Crystals"

DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2192183

Abstract: We attempt to describe surface defects in smectic A thin films by formulating a free discontinuity problem - that is, a variational problem in which the order parameter is allowed to have jump discontinuities on… read more here.

Keywords: thin films; model smectic; free discontinuity; smectic thin ... See more keywords