Global existence of solutions of the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system in dimension two (Q618744)

In the 1960s, Ericksen and Leslie established the hydrodynamic theory for modelling liquid crystal flow. In this paper, the author investigates a simplified model of the Ericksen-Leslie system for modelling liquid crystal flow, which is a system of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the harmonic map flow. It is proved that the global existence of solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) with initial data, where the solutions are regular except for at a finite number of singular times.