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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,…
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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…
This article investigates the interaction of nematic liquid crystals modeled by a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model with a rigid body. It is shown that this problem is locally strongly well-posed, and that it also admits a unique, global…
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