Existence of weak solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie model for a general class of free energies

DOI10.1002/MMA.5172MaRDI QIDQ4557097zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Etienne Emmrich, Robert Lasarzik

Publication date 29 November 2018

Published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10277

zbMATH Keywords

Ericksen-Leslie equationexistenceGalerkin approximationliquid crystalweak solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for higher-order parabolic systems (35K52) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15)

Abstract: A quasistatic model due to Ericksen and Leslie describing incompressible liquid crystals is studied for a general class of free energies. Global existence of weak solutions is proven via a Galerkin approximation with eigenfunctions of a strongly elliptic operator. A novelty is that the principal part of the differential operator appearing in the director equation can be nonlinear.

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