Finite time blow-up for the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension two

2019/08/28 by Chen‐Chih Lai, Lai, Chen-Chih, Fanghua Lin +7 · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Navier-Stokes equation solutions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1908.10955

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Abstract

We consider the initial-boundary value problem of a simplified nematic liquid crystal flow in a bounded, smooth domain Ω⊂ \mathbb R². Given any k distinct points in the domain, we develop a new \em inner--outer gluing method to construct solutions which blow up exactly at those k points as t goes to a finite time T. Moreover, we obtain a precise description of the blow-up.

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