Related papers: Nematic Liquid Crystals in Lipschitz domains
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Existence of mild solutions for the 3D MHD system in bounded Lipschitz domains is established in critical spaces with the absolute boundary conditions.
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…