Strong solutions to Cauchy problem of 2D compressible nematic liquid crystal flows

Yang Liu; Sining Zheng; Huapeng Li; Shengquan Liu

doi:10.3934/dcds.2017165

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2017, Volume 37, Issue 7: 3921-3938. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017165

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Strong solutions to Cauchy problem of 2D compressible nematic liquid crystal flows

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School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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College of Science, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin 132013, China
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School of Mathematics, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China

* Corresponding author: S. Zheng
* Corresponding author: S. Zheng

Received: July 2015

Revised: February 2017

Published: August 2017

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This paper studies the local existence of strong solutions to the Cauchy problem of the 2D simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling compressible nematic liquid crystal flows, coupled via $ρ$ (the density of the fluid), $u$ (the velocity of the field), and $d$ (the macroscopic/continuum molecular orientations). Notice that the technique used for the corresponding 3D local well-posedness of strong solutions fails treating the 2D case, because the $L^p$-norm ($p>2$) of the velocity $u$ cannot be controlled in terms only of $ρ^{\frac{1}{2}}u$ and $\nabla u$ here. In the present paper, under the framework of weighted approximation estimates introduced in [J. Li, Z. Liang, On classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with vacuum, J. Math. Pures Appl. (2014) 640-671] for Navier-Stokes equations, we obtain the local existence of strong solutions to the 2D compressible nematic liquid crystal flows.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 76W05, 76N10, 35B45.

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