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In this paper we provide a sufficient condition, in terms of the horizontal gradient of two horizontal velocity components and the gradient of liquid crystal molecular orientation field, for the breakdown of local in time strong solutions…
We investigate low-regularity integrator (LRI) methods for the Q-tensor model governing nematic liquid-crystalline semilinear parabolic equation. First- and second-order temporal discretizations are developed using Duhamel's formula, and we…
We study a 1D fluid mechanics model with nonlocal velocity. The equation can be viewed as a fractional porous medium flow, a 1D model of the quasi-geostrophic equation, and also a special case of Euler-Alignment system. For strictly…
In this paper, we study the regularity criteria for the 3D Boussinesq equations in terms of one partial derivative of the velocity in Besov spaces. More precisely, it is proved that if the velocity $u$ holds $\int_{0}^{T}\| \partial_{3}…
We study a complex non-newtonian fluid that models the flow of nematic liquid crystals. The fluid is described by a system that couples a forced Navier-Stokes system with a parabolic-type system. We prove the existence of global weak…
In this paper, we prove a Beale--Kato--Majda blow-up criterion in terms of the gradient of the velocity only for the strong solution to the 3-D compressible nematic liquid crystal flows with nonnegative initial densities. More precisely,…
Consider the (simplified) Leslie-Erickson model for the flow of nematic liquid crystals in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ for n > 1$. This article develops a complete dynamic theory for these equations, analyzing the system…
In this paper, we consider the regularity criterion for 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in terms of one directional derivative of the velocity in anisotropic Lebesgue spaces. More precisely, it is proved that u becomes a regular…
We study the global existence and regularity of solutions for a system describing the evolution of a nematic liquid crystal fluid. The fluid is described by a system that couples a forced Navier-Stokes system with a parabolic-type system.…
The paper deals with the regularity criterion for the weak solutions to the 3D Boussinesq equations in terms of the partial derivatives in Besov spaces. It is proved that the weak solution $(u,\theta )$ becomes regular provided that…
We study the question of uniqueness of weak solution to the fast reaction limit of the Keller and Rubinow model for Liesegang rings as introduced by Hilhorst et al. (J. Stat. Phys. 135, 2009, pp. 107-132). The model is characterized by a…
We consider the simplest one-constant model, put forward by J. Ericksen, for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation. The equilibrium state is described by a director field $\mathbf{n}$ and its degree of orientation $s$,…
We study a Q-tensor problem modeling the dynamic of nematic liquid crystals in 3D domains. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations, with an extra stress tensor depending on the elastic forces of the liquid crystal, coupled with…
In arXiv:1906.09232v2, Golovaty et al. present a $Q$-tensor model for liquid crystal dynamics which reduces to the well-known Oseen-Frank director field model in uniaxial states. We study a closely related model and present an energy stable…
Consideration is given to the effects of inhomogeneous shear flow (both regular and chaotic) on nematic liquid crystals in a planar geometry. The Landau--de Gennes equation coupled to an externally-prescribed flow field is the basis for the…
We obtain a regularity criteria of the solution to the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics system to remain smooth for all time involving only one velocity and one vorticity component. Moreover, the norm in space and time with which we…
In this paper, we consider the short time strong solution to a simplified hydrodynamic flow modeling the compressible, nematic liquid crystal materials in dimension three. We establish a criterion for possible breakdown of such solutions at…
In this article, we study the new Q-tensor model previously derived from Onsager's molecular theory by Han \textit{et al.} [Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 215.3 (2014), pp. 741-809] for static liquid crystal modeling. Taking density and…
In this paper we prove the existence of global in time weak solutions for an evolutionary PDE system modelling nonisothermal Landau-de Gennes nematic liquid crystal (LC) flows in three dimensions of space. In our model, the incompressible…
We investigate the structure of nematic liquid crystal thin films described by the Landau--de Gennes tensor-valued order parameter with Dirichlet boundary conditions of nonzero degree. We prove that as the elasticity constant goes to zero a…