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Well-posedness of the Ericksen-Leslie system

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the local well-posedness of the Ericksen-Leslie system, and the global well-posednss for small initial data under the physical constrain condition on the Leslie coefficients, which ensures that the energy of the system is dissipated. Instead of the Ginzburg-Landau approximation, we construct an approximate system with the dissipated energy based on a new formulation of the system.

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@article{arxiv.1208.6107,
  title  = {Well-posedness of the Ericksen-Leslie system},
  author = {Wei Wang and Pingwen Zhang and Zhifei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6107},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages