Trajectory attractors for the Sun-Liu model for nematic liquid crystals in 3D

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/26/4/933MaRDI QIDQ4917554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergio Frigeri, Elisabetta Rocca

Publication date 2 May 2013

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2534

zbMATH Keywords

Sun-Liu model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Attractors (35B41) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K45)

Abstract: In this paper we prove the existence of a trajectory attractor (in the sense of V.V. Chepyzhov and M.I. Vishik) for a nonlinear PDE system coming from a 3D liquid crystal model accounting for stretching effects. The system couples a nonlinear evolution equation for the director d (introduced in order to describe the preferred orientation of the molecules) with an incompressible Navier-Stokes equation for the evolution of the velocity field u. The technique is based on the introduction of a suitable trajectory space and of a metric accounting for the double-well type nonlinearity contained in the director equation. Finally, a dissipative estimate is obtained by using a proper integrated energy inequality. Both the cases of (homogeneous) Neumann and (non-homogeneous) Dirichlet boundary conditions for d are considered.

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