We developed a liquid crystal LC alignment method using a molecular template of an imprinted polymer layer during polymerization-induced phase separation. Our results showed that the nematic ordering of LC is transferred to the polymer chain ordering during an anisotropic phase separation, which produces an anisotropic azimuthal surface anchoring. Using in-plane field treatment during phase sep...

In this work, a two-layer coupled fluid-structure-structure interaction model is considered, which incorporates an anisotropic structure model into the fluid-structure interaction problems. We propose two domain decomposition solvers for such a class of coupled problems: a Robin-Robin preconditioned GMRES solver combined with an inner Dirichlet-Neumann iterative solver, and a Robin-Robin precon...

In this work, a two-layer coupled fluid-structure-structure interaction model is considered, which incorporates an anisotropic structure model into the fluid-structure interaction problems. We propose two domain decomposition solvers for such a class of coupled problems: a Robin-Robin preconditioned GMRES solver combined with an inner Dirichlet-Neumann iterative solver, and a Robin-Robin precon...

SO(3) and SO(2) decompositions of numerical channel flow turbulence are performed. The decompositions are used to probe, characterize, and quantify anisotropic structures in the flow. Close to the wall the anisotropic modes are dominant and reveal the flow structures. The SO(3) decomposition does not converge for large scales as expected. However, in the shear buffer layer it also does not conv...

Several ultrafiltration membranes of the anisotropic and isotropic type were characterized by means of the thermoporometry. Successive cooling and heating runs were performed in order to investigate the effects of the water-ice and ice-water phase transitions on the structure of the membranes. The results found for membranes having different casting thicknesses indicate that, in some cases, por...

Using parallel three-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of line-like coupled pancake vortices, we consider the e€ect of inter-layer coupling strength and pinning correlation on the magnetization curves of anisotropic super-conductors. Columnar pins produce the largest critical current and are insensitive to layer interaction strength. Point pins are increasingly e€ective at pinning the ...