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  • Title: Defect structure of a nematic liquid crystal around a spherical particle: adaptive mesh refinement approach.
    Author: Fukuda J, Yoneya M, Yokoyama H.
    Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys; 2002 Apr; 65(4 Pt 1):041709. PubMed ID: 12005848.
    Abstract:
    We investigate numerically the structure of topological defects close to a spherical particle immersed in a uniformly aligned nematic liquid crystal. To this end we have implemented an adaptive mesh refinement scheme in an axi-symmetric three-dimensional system, which makes it feasible to take into account properly the large length scale difference between the particle and the topological defects. The adaptive mesh refinement scheme proves to be quite efficient and useful in the investigation of not only the macroscopic properties such as the defect position but also the fine structure of defects. It can be shown that a hyperbolic hedgehog that accompanies a particle with strong homeotropic anchoring takes the structure of a ring.
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