From liu@math.psu.edu Wed Mar 14 15:41 EST 2001 Received: from banach.math.psu.edu (banach.math.psu.edu [146.186.131.174]) by math.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03459 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:41:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (liu@localhost) by banach.math.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA08659 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:41:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: banach.math.psu.edu: liu owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:41:45 -0500 (EST) From: Chun Liu To: Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1134 Status: RO Approximation of Liquid Crystal Flows (Andreas Prohl -- University of Kiel, Germany) 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. ************************************************************* Department of Mathematics (office) 814-865-3611 Penn State University (fax) 814-865-3735 University Park, PA 16802 (home) 814-861-4686 http://www.math.psu.edu/liu/ (e-mail) liu@math.psu.edu *************************************************************