The Zero Inertia Limit for the Q-Tensor Model of Liquid Crystals: Analysis and Numerics

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Auteurs principaux: Hirsch, Max, Weber, Franziska, Yue, Yukun
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author Hirsch, Max
Weber, Franziska
Yue, Yukun
author_facet Hirsch, Max
Weber, Franziska
Yue, Yukun
contents The goal of this work is to rigorously study the zero inertia limit for the Q-tensor model of liquid crystals. Though present in the original derivation of the Ericksen-Leslie equations for nematic liquid crystals, the inertia term of the model is often neglected in analysis and applications. We show wellposedness of the model including inertia and then show using the relative entropy method that solutions of the model with inertia converge to solutions of the model without inertia at a rate $σ$ in $L^\infty(0,T;H^1(\dom))$, where $σ$ is the inertial constant. Furthermore, we present an energy stable finite element scheme that is stable and convergent for all $σ$ and study the zero inertia limit numerically. We also present error estimates for the fully discrete scheme with respect to the discretization parameters in time and space.
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spellingShingle The Zero Inertia Limit for the Q-Tensor Model of Liquid Crystals: Analysis and Numerics
Hirsch, Max
Weber, Franziska
Yue, Yukun
Numerical Analysis
Analysis of PDEs
The goal of this work is to rigorously study the zero inertia limit for the Q-tensor model of liquid crystals. Though present in the original derivation of the Ericksen-Leslie equations for nematic liquid crystals, the inertia term of the model is often neglected in analysis and applications. We show wellposedness of the model including inertia and then show using the relative entropy method that solutions of the model with inertia converge to solutions of the model without inertia at a rate $σ$ in $L^\infty(0,T;H^1(\dom))$, where $σ$ is the inertial constant. Furthermore, we present an energy stable finite element scheme that is stable and convergent for all $σ$ and study the zero inertia limit numerically. We also present error estimates for the fully discrete scheme with respect to the discretization parameters in time and space.
title The Zero Inertia Limit for the Q-Tensor Model of Liquid Crystals: Analysis and Numerics
topic Numerical Analysis
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18328