Global weak solution and blow-up criterion of the general Ericksen-Leslie system for nematic liquid crystal flows

DOI10.1016/j.jde.2013.03.009zbMath1282.35087arXiv1212.0043MaRDI QIDQ389920

Elisabetta Rocca, Hao Wu, Cecilia Cavaterra

Publication date: 22 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0043

zbMATH Keywords

existence of weak solutions; blow up criterion; nematic liquid crystal flow; Ericksen-Leslie system; Ginzburg-Landau type approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q30: Navier-Stokes equations

76A15: Liquid crystals

35D30: Weak solutions to PDEs

35K45: Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems

35B44: Blow-up in context of PDEs