Tensorial time derivatives on moving surfaces: General concepts and a specific application for surface Landau-de Gennes models

2023/04/14 by Nitschke, Ingo, Voigt, Axel · 2 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.07220

Abstract

Observer-invariance is regarded as a minimum requirement for an appropriate definition of time derivatives. We systematically discuss such time derivatives for surface tensor field and provide explicit formulations for material, upper-convected, lower-convected and Jaumann/corotational time derivatives which all lead to different physical implications. We compare these results with the corresponding time derivatives for tangential tensor fields. As specific surface 2-tensor fields we consider surface Q-tensor fields and conforming surface Q-tensor fields and apply the results in surface Landau-de Gennes models for surface liquid crystals.

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