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In dimension three, the existence of global weak solutions to the axisymmetric simplified Ericksen-Leslie system without swirl is established. This is achieved by analyzing weak convergence of solutions of the axisymmetric Ginzburg-Landau…
In this paper, we consider Cauchy problem of simplified Ericksen-Leslie system in dimension three. We establish the unique existence of global smooth solution under some nonlinear conditions on initial data. However, we do not need small…
We study the general Ericksen-Leslie system with non-constant density, which describes the flow of nematic liquid crystal. In particular the model investigated here is associated with Parodi's relation. We prove that: in two dimension, the…
We study a simplified inertial Ericksen-Leslie system for the nematic liquid crystal flow, which can be viewed as a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations and wave map equations. We prove the global existence of classical solution with…
This paper establishes the global well-posedness and long-time dynamics of the general Ericksen--Leslie system for isotropic nematic liquid crystals under a constant magnetic field. On the two-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^2$, a liquid…
In this paper, we first establish the regularity theorem for suitable weak solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in dimensions two. Building on such a regularity, we then establish the existence of a global weak solution to the…
In this paper we investigate the three dimensional general Ericksen-Leslie (E--L) system with Ginzburg-Landau type approximation modeling nematic liquid crystal flows. First, by overcoming the difficulties from lack of maximum principle for…
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the Ericksen-Leslie system of liquid crystals in $\mathbb R^3$. Global well-posedness of strong solutions are obtained under the condition that the product of $\|u_0\|_2+\|\nabla d_0\|_2$ and…
We consider the two dimensional unsteady Prandtl system. For a special class of outer Euler flows and solutions of the Prandtl system, the trace of the tangential derivative of the tangential velocity along the transversal axis solves a…
The work deals with the Ericksen-Leslie System for nematic liquid crystals on the whole space. In our work we suppose the initial condition of the orientation field stays on an arc connecting two fixed orthogonal vectors on the unit sphere.…
In this paper, we consider the boundary value problem of a simplified Ericksen-Leslie system in dimension two with non-slip boundary condition for the velocity field $u$ and time-dependent boundary condition for the director field $d$ of…
We establish the local well-posedness of the general Ericksen-Leslie system in liquid crystals with the initial velocity and director field in $H^1 \times H_b^2$. In particular, we prove that the solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau…
We prove that the smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for the compressible general three-dimensional Ericksen--Leslie system modeling nematic liquid crystal flow with conserved mass, linear momentum, and dissipating total energy,…
In this paper we investigate the role of Parodi's relation in the well-posedness and stability of the general Ericksen-Leslie system modeling nematic liquid crystal flows. First, we give a formal physical derivation of the Ericksen-Leslie…
We consider the compressible Ericksen-Leslie system of liquid crystal flows in one dimension. A global weak solution is constructed with initial density $\rho_0\geq 0$ and $\rho_0\in L^\gamma$ for $\gamma>1$.
The Ericksen-Leslie system is a fundamental hydrodynamic model that describes the evolution of incompressible liquid crystal flows of nematic type. In this paper, we prove the uniqueness of global weak solutions to the general…
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…
In this article, we consider the Ericksen-Leslie's hyperbolic system for compressible liquid crystal model in three spatial dimensions. Global regularity for small and smooth initial data near equilibrium is proved for the case that the…
We study strong solutions of the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in a domain $\Omega \subset\mathbb R^3$. We first prove the local existence of unique strong solutions provided that the…
We prove the global existence of weak solution for two dimensional Ericksen-Leslie system with the Leslie stress and general Ericksen stress under the physical constrains on the Leslie coefficients. We also prove the local well-posedness of…