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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 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 study a simplified inertial Ericksen-Leslie system for the nematic liquid crystal flow, which can be viewed as a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations and wave map equations. We prove the global existence of classical solution with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Yuan Cai , Wei Wang

We present explicit expressions of the helicity conservation in nematic liquid crystal flows, for both the Ericksen-Leslie and Landau-de Gennes theories. This is done by using a minimal coupling argument that leads to an Euler-like equation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-18 François Gay-Balmaz , Cesare Tronci

In this paper, we prove the global existence of weak solutions to the non-isothermal nematic liquid crystal system on $\mathbb T^2$, based on a new approximate system which is different from the classical Ginzburg-Landau approximation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Jinkai Li , Zhouping Xin

We study the weak anchoring condition for nematic liquid crystals in the context of the Landau-De Gennes model. We restrict our attention to two dimensional samples and to nematic director fields lying in the plane, for which the Landau-De…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-18 Stan Alama , Lia Bronsard , Bernardo Galvao-Sousa

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

Global existence for weak solutions to systems of nematic liquid crystals, with non-constant fluid density has been established by several authors. In this paper, we establish the regularity and uniqueness results for solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Mimi Dai , Jie Qing , Maria E. Schonbek

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

We prove the existence of weak solutions to steady, compressible non-Newtonian Navier-Stokes system on a bounded, two- or three-dimensional domain. Assuming the viscous stress tensor is monotone satisfying a power-law growth with power $r$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Cosmin Burtea , Maja Szlenk

In this paper we prove the convergence for all time for a Ginzburg- Landau type approximation of a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model in two dimension. Moreover, we are able to show that the singular set consists in at most finitely many…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Doantella Donatelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Stefano Spirito

We consider the strong and weak solutions to the Cauchy problem of the inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal equations in two dimensions. We first establish the local existence and uniqueness of strong solutions by using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jinkai Li

We consider here an elliptic coupled system describing the dynamics of liquid crystals flows. This system is posed on the whole n-dimensional space. We introduce first the notion of very weak solutions for this system. Then, within the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Oscar Jarrin

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

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

We consider the equations governing incompressible, viscous fluids in three space dimensions, rotating around an inhomogeneous vector B(x): this is a generalization of the usual rotating fluid model (where B is constant). We prove the weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond

We summarise some recent results on solution landscapes for two-dimensional (2D) problems in the Landau--de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals. We study energy-minimizing and non energy-minimizing solutions of the Euler--Lagrange…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-02 Yucen Han , Apala Majumdar

In this paper, we study the weak-strong uniqueness for the Leray-Hopf type weak solutions to the Beris-Edwards model of nematic liquid crystals in $\R^3$ with an arbitrary parameter $\xi\in\R$, which measures the ratio of tumbling and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Fan Yang , Junjie Zhou

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 study the hydrodynamics of compressible flows of active liquid crystals in the Beris-Edwards hydrodynamics framework, using the Landau-de Gennes $Q$-tensor order parameter to describe liquid crystalline ordering. We prove the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Apala Majumdar , Dehua Wang , Rongfang Zhang