Existence and convergence of the Beris-Edwards system with general Landau-de Gennes energy

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the Beris-Edwards system for both biaxial and uniaxial $Q$-tensors with a general Landau-de Gennes energy density depending on four non-zero elastic constants. We prove existence of the strong solution of the Beris-Edwards system for uniaxial $Q$-tensors up to a maximal time. Furthermore, we prove that the strong solutions of the Beris-Edwards system for biaxial $Q$-tensors converge smoothly to the solution of the Beris-Edwards system for uniaxial $Q$-tensors up to its maximal existence time.

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