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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Cecilia Cavaterra , Elisabetta Rocca , Hao Wu

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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Daniele Barbera , Vladimir Georgiev

In this paper, we mainly study a hydrodynamic system modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals. In three dimensions, we first establish local well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problem of the system. Then, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Wenke Tan , Zhaoyang Yin

In this paper, we investigate an optimal boundary control problem for a two dimensional simplified Ericksen--Leslie system modelling the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier--Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-28 C. Cavaterra , E. Rocca , H. Wu

In this paper, we consider a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model for the nematic liquid crystal flow. The evolution system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective Ginzburg-Landau type equation for the averaged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Maurizio Grasselli , Hao Wu

In this paper, we prove the local well-posedness of 3-D density-dependent liquid crystal flows with initial data in the critical Besov spaces, without assumptions of small density variation. Furthermore, if the initial density is close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaoping Zhai , Yongsheng Li , Wei Yan

We study a system of nonlinear partial differential equations modeling the electrokinetics of a nematic electrolyte material consisting of various ion species suspended in a nematic liquid crystal within a bounded domain in two or three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Hengrong Du , Fizay-Noah Lee , Gieri Simonett

We study a simplified system of the original Ericksen--Leslie equations for the flow of nematic liquid crystals. This is a coupled non-parabolic dissipative dynamic system. We show the convergence of global classical solutions to single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-04 Hao Wu

We consider a port-Hamiltonian system on a spatial domain $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ that is bounded with Lipschitz boundary. We show that there is a boundary triple associated to this system. Hence, we can characterize all boundary…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Nathanael Skrepek

We consider the evolution and interaction of a 2-dimensional nematic liquid crystal of Ericksen-Leslie type within a 1-dimensional flexible viscoelastic structure. This is a fully macroscopic model in which the nematic liquid crystal is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Prince Romeo Mensah

The general Ericksen-Leslie system for the flow of nematic liquid crystals is reconsidered in the non-isothermal case aiming for thermodynamically consistent models. The non-isothermal model is then investigated analytically. A fairly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Matthias Hieber , Jan Pruess

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Tao Huang , Changyou Wang , Huanyao Wen

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Wenke Tan , Zhaoyang Yin

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

In this paper, we consider the initial and boundary value problem of Ericksen-Leslie system modeling nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension three. Two examples of singularity at finite time are constructed. The first example is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Tao Huang , Peiyong Wang

The Lebwohl-Lasher model describes the isotropic-nematic transition in liquid crystals. In two dimensions, where its continuous symmetry cannot break spontaneously, it is investigated numerically since decades to verify, in particular, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-15 Gesualdo Delfino , Youness Diouane , Noel Lamsen

In this article, we prove the local well-posedness of the free-boundary Lin-Liu equations describing the motion of inviscid nematic liquid crystals in the presence of surface tension in Lagrangian coordinates. It is well known that a priori…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Chenyun Luo , Hang Yu

For any bounded, smooth domain $\Omega\subset \R^2$, %(or $\Omega=\R^2$), we will establish the weak compactness property of solutions to the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system for both uniaxial and biaxial nematics, and the convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Hengrong Du , Tao Huang , Changyou Wang

There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the Eringen micropolar approach. Up to this day, these two descriptions have remained distinct in spite of several attempts to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-05 François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu , Cesare Tronci

We provide a novel approach to approximate bounded Lipschitz domains via a sequence of smooth, bounded domains. The flexibility of our method allows either inner or outer approximations of Lipschitz domains which also possess weakly defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Carlo Alberto Antonini