SMS scnews item created by Sanjana Bhardwaj at Fri 17 Feb 2023 1149
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 27 Feb 2023
Calendar1: 27 Feb 2023 1500-1600
CalLoc1: Zoom webinar
CalTitle1: The Beris-Edwards system for nematic liquid crystal flows
Auth: sanjana@wh8hb0j3.staff.sydney.edu.au (sbha9594) in SMS-SAML

Asia-Pacific Analysis and PDE Seminar

Asia-Pacific Analysis and PDE Seminar

Zhewen Feng

Dear friends and colleagues,   
on Monday, 27 February 2023 at
  • 12:00 PM for Beijing, Hong Kong and Perth
    • 01:00 PM for Seoul and Tokyo
  03:00 PM for Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney
05:00 PM for Auckland

Postdoc Research Fellow Zhewen Feng is giving a talk in our Asia-Pacific Analysis and PDE Seminar on 

The Beris-Edwards system for nematic liquid crystal flows

Abstract:

The Landau-de Gennes theory is the most general continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals. However, Ball and Majumdar (Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., '10) found an example that the original Landau-de Gennes energy functional is unbounded from below; thus, there is no global energy minimizer. In this talk, we consider a new Landau-de Gennes energy functional proposed by F. and Hong (CVPDE '22) that the new energy is bounded from below. Furthermore, we shall present our recent work in collaboration with Min-Chun Hong and Yu Mei on the existence of solutions for the uniaxial Beris-Edwards system based on the new energy with a scaling analysis.

Chair: Ben Goldys (The University of Sydney)

More information and how to attend this talk can be found at the seminar webpage

Sanjana
On behalf of Daniel H. and Ben

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Webinar Speaker

Man-Chun Lee
Postdoc Research Fellow @ The University of Queensland, Australia

Zhewen Feng received his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Queensland in June 2021 under the supervision of Professor Min-Chun Hong. Since then, he has been a Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.