Optimal boundary control of a simplified Ericksen-Leslie system for nematic liquid crystal flows in 2D

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DOI10.1007/S00205-017-1095-2zbMATH Open1371.35216arXiv1609.03861OpenAlexW2520750116MaRDI QIDQ524315FDOQ524315


Authors: Cecilia Cavaterra, Elisabetta Rocca, Hao Wu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 May 2017

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate an optimal boundary control problem for a two dimensional simplified Ericksen--Leslie system modelling the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The hydrodynamic system consists of the Navier--Stokes equations for the fluid velocity coupled with a convective Ginzburg--Landau type equation for the averaged molecular orientation. The fluid velocity is assumed to satisfy a no-slip boundary condition, while the molecular orientation is subject to a time-dependent Dirichlet boundary condition that corresponds to the strong anchoring condition for liquid crystals. We first establish the existence of optimal boundary controls. Then we show that the control-to-state operator is Fr'echet differentiable between appropriate Banach spaces and derive first-order necessary optimality conditions in terms of a variational inequality involving the adjoint state variables.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03861




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