PREFACE: SPECIAL ISSUE ON MATHEMATICAL STUDY ON LIQUID CRYSTALS AND RELATED TOPICS: STATICS AND DYNAMICS

摘要

In recent years, materials related to liquid crystals have attracted many scientists due to their fascinating structures for potential applications and many challenging problems. These materials are ubiquitous in our daily life and understanding such materials are crucial to many applied areas such as in technology and gives rise to a variety of mathematical open questions which require new theories to be developed. This special issue of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems is devoted to modelings, numerics and analysis of new developments in the study of the phenomena observed in the systems of these materials.