# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2016, 5(2): 337-348. doi: 10.3934/eect.2016007

## A remark on blow up criterion of three-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows

 1 School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450011, China

Received  January 2016 Revised  March 2016 Published  June 2016

In this paper, we study the initial value problem for the three-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows. Blow up criterion of smooth solutions is established by the energy method, which refines the previous result.
Citation: Yinxia Wang. A remark on blow up criterion of three-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows. Evolution Equations & Control Theory, 2016, 5 (2) : 337-348. doi: 10.3934/eect.2016007
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