Nematic liquid crystal flow with partially free boundary

DOI10.1007/S00205-023-01859-8arXiv2207.11544MaRDI QIDQ6405829FDOQ6405829

Authors: Fanghua Lin, Yannick Sire, Juncheng Wei, Yifu Zhou 

Publication date: 23 July 2022

Abstract: We study a simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals with partially free boundary conditions. It is a coupled system between the Navier-Stokes equation for the fluid velocity with a transported heat flow of harmonic maps, and both of these parabolic equations are critical for analysis in two dimensions. The boundary conditions are physically natural and they correspond to the Navier slip boundary condition with zero friction for the velocity field and a Plateau-Neumann type boundary condition for the map. In this paper we construct smooth solutions of this coupled system that blow up in finite time at any finitely many given points on the boundary or in the interior of the domain.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Heat equation (35K05) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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