Global Well-posedness of the Two Dimensional Beris-Edwards System with General Laudau-de Gennes Free Energy

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Autori principali: Liu, Yuning, Wu, Hao, Xu, Xiang
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author Liu, Yuning
Wu, Hao
Xu, Xiang
author_facet Liu, Yuning
Wu, Hao
Xu, Xiang
contents In this paper, we consider the Beris-Edwards system for incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The system under investigation consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity $\mathbf{u}$ coupled with an evolution equation for the order parameter $Q$-tensor. One important feature of the system is that its elastic free energy takes a general form and in particular, it contains a cubic term that possibly makes it unbounded from below. In the two dimensional periodic setting, we prove that if the initial $L^\infty$-norm of the $Q$-tensor is properly small, then the system admits a unique global weak solution. The proof is based on the construction of a specific approximating system that preserves the $L^\infty$-norm of the $Q$-tensor along the time evolution.
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spellingShingle Global Well-posedness of the Two Dimensional Beris-Edwards System with General Laudau-de Gennes Free Energy
Liu, Yuning
Wu, Hao
Xu, Xiang
Analysis of PDEs
35Q35, 35Q30, 76D03, 76D05
In this paper, we consider the Beris-Edwards system for incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The system under investigation consists of the Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid velocity $\mathbf{u}$ coupled with an evolution equation for the order parameter $Q$-tensor. One important feature of the system is that its elastic free energy takes a general form and in particular, it contains a cubic term that possibly makes it unbounded from below. In the two dimensional periodic setting, we prove that if the initial $L^\infty$-norm of the $Q$-tensor is properly small, then the system admits a unique global weak solution. The proof is based on the construction of a specific approximating system that preserves the $L^\infty$-norm of the $Q$-tensor along the time evolution.
title Global Well-posedness of the Two Dimensional Beris-Edwards System with General Laudau-de Gennes Free Energy
topic Analysis of PDEs
35Q35, 35Q30, 76D03, 76D05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09961