TY - JOUR T1 - The Kinematic Effects of the Defects in Liquid Crystal Dynamics JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 1 SP - 234 EP - 249 PY - 2018 DA - 2018/04 SN - 20 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.120115.071215a UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/11151.html KW - AB -

Here we investigate the kinematic transports of the defects in the nematic liquid crystal system by numerical experiments. The model is a shear flow case of the viscoelastic continuum model simplified from the Ericksen-Leslie system. The numerical experiments are carried out by using a difference method. Based on these numerical experiments we find some interesting and important relationships between the kinematic transports and the characteristics of the flow. We present the development and interaction of the defects. These results are partly consistent with the observation from the experiments. Thus this scheme illustrates, to some extent, the kinematic effects of the defects.