Strictly physical global weak solutions of a Navier-Stokes \(Q\)-tensor system with singular potential (Q495905)

The author studies the the existence, regularity of global weak solutions to the coupled Navier-Stokes \(Q\)-tensor system on the \(d\)-dimensional torus \[ \begin{cases} \frac{\partial Q}{\partial t}+(u\cdot \nabla)Q-S(Q,\nabla u)= \Gamma(L\triangle Q-\vartheta \frac{\partial f}{\partial Q}(Q)+\frac{\vartheta}{d}\text{tr}(\frac{\partial f}{\partial Q}(Q))I+\kappa Q), \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+(u\cdot \nabla)u=\nu \triangle u - \nabla p + \text{div}(\tau(Q)+\sigma(Q)), \\ \nabla\cdot u=0. \end{cases}\tag{1} \] as the modification of the proposed in [\textit{A. N. Beris} and \textit{B. J. Edwards}, Thermodynamics of flowing systems: with internal microstructure. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1994)] model where the spatial dimension \(d\) is either 2 or 3, \(Q\) is a \(d \times d\) matrix valued map and \(\Gamma, L, \vartheta,\kappa, \nu\) are positive constants at the usage of the introduced in [\textit{J. M. Ball} and \textit{A. Majumdar}, ``Nematic liquid crystals: from Maier-Saupe to a continuum theory'', Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 525, No. 1, 1--11 (2010)] singular potential instead of commonly used Landau-de Gennes bulk potential. However his main result on the construction of global strong solutions to (1) on the base of a maximum principle argument the author proved only in the dimension two.