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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Tianwen Luo , Chunjing Xie , Zhouping Xin

We carry out an asymptotic analysis of a thin nematic liquid crystal in which one elastic constant dominates over the others, namely \begin{align} \label{energyab} \inf E_\varepsilon(u)\quad\mbox{where}\quad E_\varepsilon(u) :=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Dmitry Golovaty , Peter Sternberg , Raghavendra Venkatraman

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

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

The purpose of this contribution is to show that some of the basic ideas of turbulence can be addressed in a deterministic setting instead of introducing random realizations of the fluid. Weak limits of oscillating sequences of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claude Bardos , Jean Michel Ghidaglia , Spyridon Kamvissis

We present several examples of fundamental problems involving weak continuity and compactness for nonlinear partial differential equations, in which compensated compactness and related ideas have played a significant role. We first focus on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Gui-Qiang G. Chen

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic equation relies on the weak coupling approximation of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-19 Aurelio Patelli

We study the hydrodynamics of compressible active nematic liquid crystals in a three-dimensional and bounded domain, with a nonlinear viscosity tensor and nonhomogeneous boundary data, in a Landau-de Gennes framework. We prove the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Kuntal Bhandari , Apala Majumdar , Šárka Nečasová

Starting from Beris-Edwards system for the liquid crystal, we present a rigorous derivation of Ericksen-Leslie system with general Ericksen stress and Leslie stress by using the Hilbert expansion method.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Wei Wang , Pingwen Zhang , Zhifei Zhang

A basic example of shear flow was introduced by DiPerna and Majda to study the weak limit of oscillatory solutions of the Euler equations of incompressible ideal fluids. In particular, they proved by means of this example that weak limit of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Claude Bardos , Edriss S. Titi

The Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystal flows in case of an isothermal and incompressible fluid with general Leslie stress and anisotropic elasticity, i.e. with general Ericksen stress tensor, is shown for the first time to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Matthias Hieber , Jinkai Li , Mathias Wilke

This chapter is about the modeling of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) and their numerical simulation. We begin with an overview of the basic physics of LCs and discuss some of their many applications. Next, we delve into the modeling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-13 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Shawn W. Walker

We show strong convergence of the vorticities in the vanishing viscosity limit for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the two-dimensional torus, assuming only that the initial vorticity of the limiting Euler equations is in $L^p$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes , Christian Seis , Emil Wiedemann

We study the Euler equations with the so-called Ekman damping in the whole 2D space. The global well-posedness and dissipativity for the weak infinite energy solutions of this problem in the uniformly local spaces is verified based on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Vladimir Chepyzhov , Sergey Zelik

We prove the weak-strong uniqueness for measure-valued solutions of the incompressible Euler equations. These were introduced by R.DiPerna and A.Majda, and in particular global existence to any L2 initial data was proven. Whether…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-08 Yann Brenier , Camillo De Lellis , László Székelyhidi

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 $\gamma>1$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Huajun Gong , Tao Huang , Changyou Wang

We study the Ericksen-Leslie's hyperbolic incompressible liquid crystal model. Under some constraints on the Leslie coefficients which ensure the basic energy law is dissipative, we prove the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Ning Jiang , Yi-Long Luo

We consider the temporal decay estimates for weak solutions to the two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows, and we show that the energy norm of a global weak solution has non-uniform decay \begin{align*} \|u(t)\|_{L^{2}}+\|\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Qiao Liu

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

The Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystals in a bounded domain with general Leslie and isotropic Ericksen stress is studied in the case of a non-isothermal and incompressible fluid. This system is shown to be locally well-posed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Matthias Hieber , Jan Prüss