A uniqueness and regularity criterion for Q-tensor models with Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract

We give a regularity criterion for a $Q$-tensor system modeling a nematic Liquid Crystal, under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions for the tensor $Q$. Starting of a criterion only imposed on the velocity field $\mathbf{u}$ two results are proved; the uniqueness of weak solutions and the global in time weak regularity for the time derivative $({\partial }_t\mathbf{u},{\partial }_{t}Q)$. This paper extends the work done in [F. Guillén-González, M.A. Rodríguez-Bellido \& M.A. Rojas-Medar, Sufficient conditions for regularity and uniqueness of a 3D nematic liquid crystal model, Math. Nachr. 282 (2009), no. 6, 846-867] for a nematic Liquid Crystal model formulated in $(\mathbf{u},\mathbf{d})$, where $\mathbf{d}$ denotes the orientation vector of the liquid crystal molecules.

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