# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2016, 36(10): 5579-5594. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016045

## Serrin's regularity results for the incompressible liquid crystals system

 1 Institute of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 2 School of Mathematic Sciences, Fudan University/Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China 3 School of Mathematic Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China 4 School of Mathematic Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Received  August 2015 Revised  November 2015 Published  July 2016

In this paper, we study the simplified system of the original Ericksen--Leslie equations for the flow of liquid crystals [10]. Under Serrin criteria [13], we prove a partial interior regularity result of weak solutions for the three-dimensional incompressible liquid crystal system.
Citation: Xian-Gao Liu, Jianzhong Min, Kui Wang, Xiaotao Zhang. Serrin's regularity results for the incompressible liquid crystals system. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (10) : 5579-5594. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016045
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