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In this paper, we will establish the global existence of a suitable weak solution to the Erickson--Leslie system modeling hydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystal flows with kinematic transports for molecules of various shapes in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Hengrong Du , Changyou Wang

We address semigroup well-posedness of the fluid-structure interaction of a linearized compressible, viscous fluid and an elastic plate (in the absence of rotational inertia). Unlike existing work in the literature, we linearize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 George Avalos , Pelin G. Geredeli , Justin T. Webster

We study the coupled Navier-Stokes Ginzburg-Landau model of nematic liquid crystals introduced by F.H. Lin, which is a simplified version of the Ericksen-Leslie system. We generalize the model to compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifolds,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Steve Shkoller

In this paper, we establish the local well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the simplified version of hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals (\ref{LLF}) in $\mathbb R^3$ for any initial data $(u_0,d_0)$ having small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Jay Hineman , Changyou Wang

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Jiaxi Huang , Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo , Lifeng Zhao

Consider the coupled Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes or the chemotaxis-consumption-Navier-Stokes system in bounded Lipschitz domains for general coupling terms which, e.g., include buoyancy forces. It is shown that these systems admit local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Matthias Hieber , Hideo Kozono , Sylvie Monniaux , Patrick Tolksdorf

In this paper, we consider a complex fluid modeling nematic liquid crystal flows, which is described by a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations with a parabolic Q-tensor system. We first prove the global existence of weak solutions in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Jinrui Huang , Shijin Ding

In the first part of this paper, we will consider minimizing configurations of the Oseen-Frank energy functional $E(n, m)$ for a biaxial nematics $(n, m):\Omega\to \mathbb S^2\times \mathbb S^2$ with $n\cdot m=0$ in dimension three, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Junyu Lin , Yimei Li , Changyou Wang

This article is devoted to the two dimensional simplified Ericksen-Leslie's hyperbolic system for incompressible liquid crystal model, where the direction $d$ of liquid crystal molecules satisfies a wave map equation with an acoustical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Jiaxi Huang , Ning Jiang , Lifeng Zhao

We consider a general family of regularized systems for the full Ericksen-Leslie model for the hydrodynamics of liquid crystals in $n$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds, $n$=2,3. The system we consider consists of a regularized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-21 Ciprian G. Gal , Louis Tebou

We study a simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals with partially free boundary conditions. It is a coupled system between the Navier-Stokes equation for the fluid velocity with a transported heat flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Fanghua Lin , Yannick Sire , Juncheng Wei , Yifu Zhou

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 $s$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Shawn W. Walker , Wujun Zhang

We establish the global existence of weak martingale solutions to the simplified stochastic Ericksen--Leslie system modeling the nematic liquid crystal flow driven by Wiener-type noises on the two-dimensional bounded domains. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Hengrong Du , Changyou Wang

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of local strong solutions of the hydrodynamics of nematic liquid crystals system under the initial data satisfying a natural compatibility condition. Also the global strong solutions of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-01 Xiangao Liu , Lanming Liu , Yihang Hao

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

We derive conditions for well-posedness of semilinear evolution equations with unbounded input operators. Based on this, we provide sufficient conditions for such properties of the flow map as Lipschitz continuity,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Andrii Mironchenko

We model nematic liquid crystal configurations inside three-dimensional prisms, with a polygonal cross-section and Dirichlet boundary conditions on all prism surfaces. We work in a reduced Landau-de Gennes framework, and the Dirichlet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-26 Yucen Han , Baoming Shi , Lei Zhang , Apala Majumdar

This paper is concerned with the long time dynamics of the free boundary of a Darcy fluid in three space dimensions, also known as the one-phase Muskat problem. The dynamics of the free boundary is governed by a nonlocal fully nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 H. Dong , F. Gancedo. H. Q. Nguyen

Existence of mild solutions for the 3D MHD system in bounded Lipschitz domains is established in critical spaces with the absolute boundary conditions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Sylvie Monniaux

We investigate the solution landscapes of a simplified Ericksen--Leslie (sEL) vector model for nematic liquid crystals, confined in a two-dimensional square domain with tangent boundary conditions. An efficient numerical algorithm is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-17 Yucen Han , Jianyuan Yin , Yucheng Hu , Apala Majumdar , Lei Zhang