Special Session 3: Analysis of diffuse and sharp interface models

Global solutions of nematic liquid crystal flow
Yong Yu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Co-Author(s):    Yuan Chen, Soojum Kim, Shun Li, Pei Lyu
Abstract:
Ericksen-Leslie hydrodynamical system describes the motion of nematic liquid crystal molecules. Lin-Liu model is a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model which preserves the main structure of the original Ericksen-Leslie system. In this talk, I survey several results concerning about the global weak solutions to the Lin-Liu model, and the long-time asymptotic behaviors of these solutions. The problems to be addressed will be on both 2D and 3D, and on both domains with fixed boundary and free boundary. All the results presented in the talk are supported by RGC grants of Hong Kong.