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December  2016, 9(6): 1913-1937. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016078

Well-posedness for the three-dimensional compressible liquid crystal flows

Xiaoli Li 1, and  Boling Guo 2,

1. 

College of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
2. 

Institute of Applied Physics & Computational Math., Beijing 100088

Received  July 2015 Revised  September 2016 Published  November 2016

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem for the three-dimensional compressible liquid crystal flows. The system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations describing the evolution of a compressible viscous fluid coupled with various kinematic transport equations for the heat flow of harmonic maps into $\mathbb{S}^2$. Assuming the initial density has vacuum and the initial data satisfies a natural compatibility condition, the existence and uniqueness is established for the local strong solution with large initial data and also for the global strong solution with initial data being close to an equilibrium state. The existence result is proved via the local well-posedness and uniform estimates for a proper linearized system with convective terms.
Keywords: existence and uniqueness., strong solution, vacuum, compressible, Liquid crystals.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35A05, 76D10, 76D0.
Citation: Xiaoli Li, Boling Guo. Well-posedness for the three-dimensional compressible liquid crystal flows. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2016, 9 (6) : 1913-1937. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016078
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References:
[1]

K. C. Chang, W. Y. Ding and R. Ye, Finite-time blow-up of the heat flow of harmonic maps from surfaces,, J. Diff. Geom., 36 (1992), 507.   Google Scholar

[2]

H. J. Choe and H. Kim, Strong solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for isentropic compressible fluids,, J. Diff. Equations, 190 (2003), 504.  doi: 10.1016/S0022-0396(03)00015-9.  Google Scholar

[3]

Y. Cho, H. J. Choe and H. Kim, Unique solvability of the initial boundary value prob lems for compressible viscous fluids,, J. Math. Pures Appl., 83 (2004), 243.  doi: 10.1016/j.matpur.2003.11.004.  Google Scholar

[4]

Y. Cho and H. Kim, Existence results for viscous polytropic fluids with vacuum,, J. Diff. Equations, 228 (2006), 377.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2006.05.001.  Google Scholar

[5]

S. Ding, C. Wang and H. Wen, Weak solution to compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in dimension one,, Discrete Conti. Dyna. Sys. Ser. B, 15 (2011), 357.  doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.357.  Google Scholar

[6]

S. Ding, J. Lin, C. Wang and H. Wen, Compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in 1-D,, Discrete Conti. Dyna. Sys., 32 (2012), 539.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.539.  Google Scholar

[7]

J. Ericksen, Conservation laws for liquid crystals,, Trans. Soc. Rheol., 5 (1961), 22.  doi: 10.1122/1.548883.  Google Scholar

[8]

J. Ericksen, Equilibrium theory for liquid crystals, in: G. Brown (Ed.),, Advances in Liquid Crystals, 2 (1976), 233.  doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-025002-8.50012-9.  Google Scholar

[9]

J. Ericksen, Continuum theory of nematic liquid crystals,, Molecular Crystals, 7 (2007), 153.  doi: 10.1080/15421406908084869.  Google Scholar

[10]

M. Hong, Global existence of solutions of the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system in dimension two,, Calc. Var. Partial Diff. Equations, 40 (2011), 15.  doi: 10.1007/s00526-010-0331-5.  Google Scholar

[11]

X. Hu and H. Wu, Global solution to the three-dimensional compressible flow of liquid crystals,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 45 (2013), 2678.  doi: 10.1137/120898814.  Google Scholar

[12]

T. Huang, C. Wang and H. Wen, Strong solutions of the compressible nematic liquid crystal flow,, J. Diff. Equations, 252 (2012), 2222.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.07.036.  Google Scholar

[13]

T. Huang, C. Wang and H. Wen, Blow up criterion for compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension three,, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 204 (2012), 285.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-011-0476-1.  Google Scholar

[14]

F. Jiang and Z. Tan, Global weak solution to the flow of liquid crystals system,, Math. Meth. Appl. Sci., 32 (2009), 2243.  doi: 10.1002/mma.1132.  Google Scholar

[15]

F. M. Leslie, Theory of flow phenomena in liquid crystals, in: G. Brown (Ed.),, Advances in Liquid Crystals, 4 (1979), 1.  doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-025004-2.50008-9.  Google Scholar

[16]

X. Li and D. Wang, Global strong solution to the density-dependent incompressible flow of liquid crystals,, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 367 (2015), 2301.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-05924-2.  Google Scholar

[17]

F. H. Lin, Nonlinear theory of defects in nematic liquid crystal: Phase transition and flow phenomena,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 42 (1989), 789.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160420605.  Google Scholar

[18]

F. H. Lin, Existence of solutions for the Ericksen-Leslie system,, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 154 (2000), 135.  doi: 10.1007/s002050000102.  Google Scholar

[19]

F. H. Lin and C. Liu, Nonparabolic dissipative systems modeling the flow of liquid crystals,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 48 (1995), 501.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160480503.  Google Scholar

[20]

F. H. Lin and C. Liu, Partial regularities of the nonlinear dissipative systems modeling the flow of liquid crystals,, Discrete Conti. Dyna. Sys., 2 (1996), 1.   Google Scholar

[21]

F. H. Lin, J. Lin and C. Wang, Liquid crystal flows in two dimensions,, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 197 (2010), 297.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-009-0278-x.  Google Scholar

[22]

C. Liu, Dynamic theory for incompressible smectic-A liquid crystals,, Discrete Conti. Dyna. Sys., 6 (2000), 591.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2000.6.591.  Google Scholar

[23]

X. Liu, L. Liu and Y. Hao, Existence of strong solutions for the compressible Ericksen-Leslie model,, , ().   Google Scholar

[24]

X. Liu and Z. Zhang, {Existence of the flow of liquid crystals system,, Chinese Ann. Math., 30 (2009), 1.   Google Scholar

[25]

S. Shkoller, Well-posedness and global attractors for liquid crystals on Riemannian manifolds,, Comm. Partial Diff. Equations, 27 (2001), 1103.  doi: 10.1081/PDE-120004895.  Google Scholar

[26]

C. Wang, Well-posedness for the heat flow of harmonic maps and the liquid crystal flow with rough initial data,, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 200 (2011), 1.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-010-0343-5.  Google Scholar

[27]

H. Wen and S. Ding, Solutions of incompressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals,, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 12 (2011), 1510.  doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2010.10.010.  Google Scholar

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