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Well-posedness of frame hydrodynamics for biaxial nematic liquid crystals

Analysis of PDEs 2022-07-01 v2

Abstract

We consider the hydrodynamics for the biaxial nematic phase characterized by a field of orthonormal frame, which can be derived from a molecular-theory-based tensor model. In dimension two and three, we establish the local well-posedness and the blow-up criterion for smooth solutions to the frame hydrodynamic model. Furthermore, we prove the global existence of weak solutions in R2\mathbb{R}^2 which are nonsmooth at finitely many singular times.

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@article{arxiv.2202.08998,
  title  = {Well-posedness of frame hydrodynamics for biaxial nematic liquid crystals},
  author = {Sirui Li and Chenchen Wang and Jie Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08998},
  year   = {2022}
}

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47 pages