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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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-14 Marius Paicu , Arghir Zarnescu

In this paper, we prove the global well posedness and the decay estimates for a $\mathbb Q$-tensor model of nematic liquid crystals in $\mathbb R^N$, $N \geq 3$. This system is coupled system by the Navier-Stokes equations with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Miho Murata , Yoshihiro Shibata

In this paper we study a gradient flow generated by the Landau-de Gennes free energy that describes nematic liquid crystal configurations in the space of $Q$-tensors. This free energy density functional is composed of three quadratic terms…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Yuning Liu , Xinyang Lu , Xiang Xu

We consider the weak solution of the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in $\mathbb R^3$. When the initial data is small in $L^2$ and initial density is positive and essentially bounded, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Guochun Wu , Zhong Tan

The initial-boundary value problem for the density-dependent incompressible flow of liquid crystals is studied in a three-dimensional bounded smooth domain. For the initial density away from vacuum, the existence and uniqueness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Xiaoli Li , Dehua Wang

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Matthias Hieber , Manuel Nesensohn , Jan Prüss , Katharina Schade

We investigate compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in three-dimensional (3D) bounded domains with slip boundary condition for velocity and Neumann boundary condition for orientation field. By applying piecewise-estimate method and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Yang Liu , Xin Zhong

In this paper, we consider the Dirichlet problem of inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal equations in bounded smooth domains of two or three dimensions. We prove the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jinkai Li

We consider a four-elastic-constant Landau-de Gennes energy characterizing nematic liquid crystal configurations described using the $Q$-tensor formalism. The energy contains a cubic term and is unbounded from below. We study dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Gautam Iyer , Xiang Xu , Arghir Zarnescu

The equations of stationary compressible flows of active liquid crystals are considered in a bounded three-dimensional domain. The system consists of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the equation of Q-tensors and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Zhilei Liang , Apala Majumdar , Dehua Wang , Yixuan Wang

We study the global existence of weak solutions to a multi-dimensional simplified Ericksen-Leslie system for compressible flows of nematic liquid crystals with large initial energy in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$, where N=2…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Dehua Wang

In this paper, we consider the Q-tensor model of nematic liquid crystals, which couples the Navier-Stokes equations with a parabolic-type equation describing the evolution of the directions of the anisotropic molecules, in the half-space.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Daniele Barbera , Miho Murata , Yoshihiro Shibata

The evolution of two partially miscible, nonhomogeneous, incompressible viscous fluids of non-Newtonian type, can be governed by the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system. In the present work, we prove the global existence of weak solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Fang Li , Duan Xingyu , Guo Zhenhua

We prove the global-in-time existence of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations of compressible isentropic flow in three space dimensions with adiabatic exponent $\gamma\ge1$. Initial data and solutions are small in $L^2$ around a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Anthony Suen

We consider weak solutions to a two-dimensional simplified Ericksen-Leslie system of compressible flow of nematic liquid crystals. An initial-boundary value problem is first studied in a bounded domain. By developing new techniques and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Dehua Wang

We study the three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the $Q$-tensor equation perturbed by a multiplicative stochastic force, which describes the motion of nematic liquid crystal flows. The local existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Yixuan Wang , Zhaoyang Qiu

In this paper, we investigate the Cauchy problem for the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows in three-dimensional whole space. First of all, we establish the global existence of solution by energy method under assumption of small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Jincheng Gao , Qiang Tao , Zheng-an Yao

A diffuse-interface model that describes the dynamics of nonhomogeneous incompressible two-phase viscous flows is investigated in a bounded smooth domain in ${\mathbb R}^3.$ The dynamics of the state variables is described by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Nie Rui , Fang Li , Guo Zhenhua

This paper is concerned with the three-dimensional equations of a simplified hydrodynamic flow modeling the motion of compressible, nematic liquid crystal materials. The authors establish the global existence of classical solution to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Jing Li , Zhonghai Xu , Jianwen Zhang

In this paper, we consider the global existence and uniqueness of the classical solutions for the 3D viscous liquid-gas two-phase flow model. Initial data is only small in the energy-norm. Our main ideas come from [15] where the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Haibo Cui , Huanyao Wen , Haiyan Yin