The simplified 2D Ericksen-Leslie liquid crystal model interacting with a 1D flexible shell

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contents We consider the evolution and interaction of a 2-dimensional nematic liquid crystal of Ericksen-Leslie type within a 1-dimensional flexible viscoelastic structure. This is a fully macroscopic model in which the nematic liquid crystal is modelled by the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system with Ginzburg-Landau approximation. The liquid crystal is contained in a thin viscoelastic shell of arbitrary reference configuration that evolves with respect to the forces exerted by the liquid crystal. Barring any degeneracies in the shell, we construct a global weak solution for the coupled system. We then show that any family of such weak solutions that are parametrized by the Ginzburg-Landau coefficient, converges to a weak solution of the original simplified Ericksen-Leslie system without the Ginzburg-Landau term.
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spellingShingle The simplified 2D Ericksen-Leslie liquid crystal model interacting with a 1D flexible shell
Mensah, Prince Romeo
Analysis of PDEs
We consider the evolution and interaction of a 2-dimensional nematic liquid crystal of Ericksen-Leslie type within a 1-dimensional flexible viscoelastic structure. This is a fully macroscopic model in which the nematic liquid crystal is modelled by the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system with Ginzburg-Landau approximation. The liquid crystal is contained in a thin viscoelastic shell of arbitrary reference configuration that evolves with respect to the forces exerted by the liquid crystal. Barring any degeneracies in the shell, we construct a global weak solution for the coupled system. We then show that any family of such weak solutions that are parametrized by the Ginzburg-Landau coefficient, converges to a weak solution of the original simplified Ericksen-Leslie system without the Ginzburg-Landau term.
title The simplified 2D Ericksen-Leslie liquid crystal model interacting with a 1D flexible shell
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06463