Global well-posedness of non-isothermal inhomogeneous nematic liquid crystal flows

Dongfen Bian; Yao Xiao

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2020161

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2021, Volume 26, Issue 3: 1243-1272. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020161

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Global well-posedness of non-isothermal inhomogeneous nematic liquid crystal flows

Dongfen Bian^1,2, and
Yao Xiao^3,

1.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
2.
Beijing Key Laboratory on MCAACI, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
3.
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Received: February 2018

Revised: March 2020

Early access: May 2020

Published: March 2021

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In this paper, we consider the initial-boundary value problem to the non-isothermal incompressible liquid crystal system with both variable density and temperature. Global well-posedness of strong solutions is established for initial data being small perturbation around the equilibrium state. As the tools in the proof, we establish the maximal regularities of the linear Stokes equations and parabolic equations with variable coefficients and a rigid lemma for harmonic maps on bounded domains. This paper also generalizes the result in [5] to the inhomogeneous case.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B35, 35B40, 35B65, 35Q35, 76D03.

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