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Interaction of liquid crystals with a rigid body

Analysis of PDEs 2024-09-04 v2

Abstract

This article investigates the interaction of nematic liquid crystals modeled by a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model with a rigid body. It is shown that this problem is locally strongly well-posed, and that it also admits a unique, global strong solution for initial data close to constant equilibria. The proof of the global strong solution relies on a new splitting method for the director in a mean value zero and average part.

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@article{arxiv.2310.17175,
  title  = {Interaction of liquid crystals with a rigid body},
  author = {Tim Binz and Felix Brandt and Matthias Hieber and Arnab Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17175},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted for publication in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society