Blow up criterion for three‐dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows with partial viscosity

In this paper, we investigate the Cauchy problem for the three‐dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows with partial viscosity, and a blow up criterion of smooth solutions is established. This result is analogous to the celebrated Beale‐Kato‐Majda breakdown criterion for the incompressible Euler equations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Serrin criterion for compressible nematic liquid crystal flows

This paper is concerned with a simplified system, proposed by Ericksen and Leslie, modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals. We establish a blowup criterion for three‐dimensional compressible nematic liquid crystal flows, which is analogous to the well‐known Serrin's blowup criterion for three‐dimensional incompressible viscous flows. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new blowup criterion of strong solutions to the two-dimensional equations of compressible nematic liquid crystal flows

In this paper, we concern the Cauchy problem of two-dimensional (2D) compressible nematic liquid crystal flows with vacuum as far-field density. Under a geometric condition for the initial orientation field, we establish a blowup criterion in terms of the integrability of the density for strong solutions to the compressible nematic liquid crystal flows. This criterion generalizes previous results of compressible nematic liquid crystal flows with vacuum, which concludes the initial boundary problem and Cauchy problem.     

On decay estimates of the 3D nematic liquid crystal flows in critical Besov spaces

In this paper, we develop the energy argument in homogeneous Besov space framework to study the large time behavior of global‐in‐time strong solutions to the Cauchy problem of the three‐dimensional incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows with low regularity assumptions on initial data. More precisely, if the small initial data with 1 < p < ∞ and further assume that with 1 < q≤p and , then the global‐in‐time strong solution (u,d) to the nematic liquid crystal flows admits the following temporal decay rate: Here, is a constant unit vector. The highlight of our argument is to show that the ‐norms (with ) of solution are preserved along time evolution. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global well-posedness for the density-dependent incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows in bounded domains

In this paper, we study the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in a smooth bounded domains, in which the viscosity of the fluid and the magnetic diffusivity are concerned with density. The existence of global strong solutions is established in vacuum cases, provided the assumption that(|| ?μ(ρ0)|| Lp +|| ?ν(ρ0) ||Lq + ||b0|| L3+ ||ρ0|| L∞)(p, q 3) is small enough, there is not any smallness condition on the velocity.     

Existence and asymptotic behavior to the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flow in the whole space

In this article, first of all, the global existence and asymptotic stability of solutions to the incompressible nematic liquid crystal flow is investigated when initial data are a small perturbation near the constant steady state (0,δ₀); here, δ₀ is a constant vector with |δ₀|=1. Precisely, we show the existence and asymptotic stability with small initial data for . The initial data class of us is not entirely included in the space BMO^?1×BMO and contains strongly singular functions and measures. As an application, we obtain a class of asymptotic existence of a basin of attraction for each self‐similar solution with homogeneous initial data. We also study global existence of a large class of decaying solutions and construct an explicit asymptotic formula for ∣x∣→∞, relating the self‐similar profile (U(x),D(x)) to its corresponding initial data (u₀,d₀). In two dimensions, we obtain higher‐order asymptotics of (u(x),d(x)). Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global strong solutions for 3D viscous incompressible heat conducting Navier‐Stokes flows with the general external force

In this paper, we consider the initial boundary value problem for the nonhomogeneous heat–conducting fluids with non‐negative density and the general external force. We prove that there exists a unique global strong solution to the 3D viscous nonhomogeneous heat–conducting Navier‐Stokes flows if is suitably small.     

Global strong solution to the three-dimensional density-dependent incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows

An initial-boundary value problem is considered for the density-dependent incompressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic flow in a three-dimensional bounded domain. The homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is prescribed on the velocity, and the perfectly conducting wall condition is prescribed on the magnetic field. For the initial density away from vacuum, the existence and uniqueness are established for the local strong solution with large initial data as well as for the global strong solution with small initial data. Furthermore, the weak-strong uniqueness of solutions is also proved, which shows that the weak solution is equal to the strong solution with certain initial data.     

On temporal decay estimates for the compressible nematic liquid crystal flow in

We use a general energy method recently developed by [Guo Y, Wang Y. Decay of dissipative equations and negative sobolev spaces. Commun. Partial Differ. Equ. 2012;37:2165–2208.] to prove the global existence and temporal decay rates of solutions to the three-dimensional compressible nematic liquid crystal flow in the whole space. In particular, the negative Sobolev norms of solutions are shown to be preserved along time evolution, and then the optimal decay rates of the higher order spatial derivatives of solutions are obtained by energy estimates and the interpolation inequalities.     

A regularity condition of strong solutions to the two‐dimensional equations of compressible nematic liquid crystal flows

This paper is concerned with the short time strong solutions for Cauchy problem to a simplified Ericksen–Leslie system of compressible nematic liquid crystals in two dimensions with vacuum as far field density. We establish a blow‐up criterion for possible breakdown of such solutions at a finite time, which is analogous to the well‐known Serrin's blow‐up criterion for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A blowup criterion for the compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension two

In this paper, we establish a blowup criterion for the two-dimensional compressible nematic liquid crystal flows. The criterion is given in terms of the density and the gradient of direction field, where the later satisfies the Serrin-type blowup criterion. For this result, we do not need the initial density to be positive.     

A family of global classical solutions to 3D incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows

In this paper we construct a family of finite energy smooth solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows. We achieve this by choosing the steady state Beltrami flows which have infinite energies as the initial data and using a special cut-off technique.     

Low Mach number limit of global solutions to 3‐D compressible nematic liquid crystal flows with Dirichlet boundary condition

In this paper, we consider the uniform estimates of strong solutions in the Mach number ? and t ∈ [0,∞) for the compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in a 3‐D bounded domain , provided the initial data are small enough and the density is close to the constant state. Here, we consider the case that the velocity field satisfies the Dirichlet boundary condition. Based on the uniform estimates, we obtain the global convergence of the compressible nematic liquid crystal system to the incompressible nematic liquid crystals system as the Mach number tends to zero.     

Global well‐posedness of the nonhomogeneous incompressible liquid crystals systems

This paper examines the initial‐value problem for the nonhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystals system with vacuum. This paper establishes two main results. The first result is involved with the global strong solutions to the 2D liquid crystals system in a bounded smooth domain. Our second result is concerned with the small data global existence result about the 3D system in the whole space. In addition, the local existence and a blow‐up criterion of strong solutions are also mentioned. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Existence of the periodic solution to the nematic liquid crystal equations in weighted Sobolev spaces

This paper is concerned with the time-periodic solution to the simplified incompressible nematic liquid crystal equation. We prove the existence of the time-periodic solution of this equation with small external forces g₁ and g₂, satisfying the T-periodic conditions g_j(t)=g_j(t+T) for j=1,2 in weighted Sobolev spaces.     

Global well-posedness for the incompressible MHD equations with density-dependent viscosity and resistivity coefficients

This paper concerns an initial–boundary value problem of the inhomogeneous incompressible MHD equations in a smooth bounded domain. The viscosity and resistivity coefficients are density-dependent. The global well-posedness of strong solutions is established, provided the initial norms of velocity and magnetic field are suitably small in some sense, or the lower bound of the transport coefficients are large enough. More importantly, there is not any smallness condition on the density and its gradient.     

A blow‐up criterion for incompressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in dimension two

In the paper, we establish a Serrin type criterion for strong solutions to a simplified density‐dependent Ericksen‐ Leslie system modeling incompressible, nematic liquid crystal materials in dimension two. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.