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[UX] Nematic functional has an attribute `pitch`, but corresponds to 2*Pi/pitch

Open joshichaitanya3 opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

From Amine Missaoui:

"I wanted to calculate the director field for a simple case of an achiral 5CB. So I set the pitch to a large value (about 200 because the "lnem.pitch = inf" command does not work)."

The pitch attribute for the Nematic functional is confusing for the user, since it actually means 2*Pi / pitch (= q).

Don't know whether we want to keep pitch or introduce the q, or keep both.

joshichaitanya3 avatar Jan 24 '22 21:01 joshichaitanya3

We can rename this to wavevector. @joshichaitanya3 or @ConduitDan please make the change and amend the examples (if any!)

softmattertheory avatar Jan 26 '22 00:01 softmattertheory

I'll take this on in my upcoming round of fixes

ConduitDan avatar Feb 22 '22 15:02 ConduitDan

revisiting this

ConduitDan avatar Mar 29 '22 14:03 ConduitDan