The new tensorial conservation law is similarly important and fundamental for the macroscopic description of ordered polymers as the continuity equation is for fluid dynamics. Therefore we expect that it will have a frontier-breaking impact on the continuum description of ordered polymers in general. Up till now all macroscopic calculations of ordered structures have implemented the vectorial constraint, which, as we have shown however, should be substituted by the new tensorial constraint under certain conditions. The new tensorial conservation law thus represents a stark deviation from the previously considered constraints implied by the polymeric nematogens and will fundamentally change our perspective on the relation between simple and polymeric nematogens. It will by necessity lead to a reconsideration of some of the existing results on polymer nematics, where this new constraint has not been adequately taken into account.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 2615908We developed an efficient and robust 3D PDE openFoam-based solver for hydrodynamics of the nematic liquid crystal - director nematodynamics and applied it to a complex hydrodynamic switching of Freedericksz domains in the realistic 3D geometry.
F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills
COBISS.SI-ID: 2662244Head of the ARRS programme: P10055 Biophysics of polymers, membranes, gels, colloids, and cells
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
Adjunct professor, Department of physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
Co-editor of the textbook "Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter" (Hardback), Editors David S. Dean, Jure Dobnikar, Ali Naji, Rudolf Podgornik
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 3295483