On the initial boundary value problem of a Navier-Stokes/Q-tensor model for liquid crystals

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2018115zbMATH Open1406.35234arXiv1606.05216OpenAlexW2963604741MaRDI QIDQ1756857FDOQ1756857

Yuning Liu, Wei Wang

Publication date: 27 December 2018

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work is concerned with the solvability of a Navier-Stokes/$Q$-tensor coupled system modeling the nematic liquid crystal flow on a bounded domain in three dimensional Euclidian space with strong anchoring boundary condition for the order parameter. We prove the existence of local in time strong solution to the system with the anisotropic elastic energy. The proof is based on mainly two ingredients: first, we show that the Euler-Lagrange operator corresponding to the Landau-de Gennes free energy with general elastic coefficients fulfills the strong Legendre condition. This result together with a higher order energy estimate leads to the well-posedness of the linearized system, and then a local in time solution of the original system which is regular in temporal variable follows via a fixed point argument. Secondly, the hydrodynamic part of the coupled system can be reformulated into a quasi-stationary Stokes type equation to which the regularity theory of the generalized Stokes system, and then a bootstrap argument can be applied to enhance the spatial regularity of the local in time solution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05216

zbMATH Keywords

local well-posednessliquid crystalsinitial boundary problemLandau-de Gennes theory\(Q\)-tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Strong solutions to PDEs (35D35) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K51)

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