Liquid Crystals possess combined crystallographic and fluid flow properties,
which make them interesting for optical
devices (e.g., laptop displays, etc.). The complex fluid flow of nematic
liquid crystals was mathematically described by
Leslie/Ericksen in the late 60's and is a highly nonlinear system of PDE's;
its mathematical as well as numerical analysis is
of much interest in recent research. In the talk, I will focus on efficient
numerical realization by means of splitting
computation of velocity, pressure, and director field at each iteration step.
We report on convergence analysis, both
mathematical and computational.
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