Leray--Hopf Type Weak Solutions for the Three-Dimensional Beris--Edwards System with Stable Landau--de Gennes Potential

Abstract

We prove existence of a weak solution to the three-dimensional Beris--Edwards system in the whole space under the stable bulk assumption $c>0$. The solution satisfies the natural bounds $Q\in L_t^{\infty }{H}_x^1\cap L_t^2{H}_x^2$ and $u\in L_t^{\infty }{L}_x^2\cap L_t^2{H}_x^1$, the distributional form of the equations, and the expanded Leray--Hopf type energy inequality used in weak--strong uniqueness arguments. The proof does not pass directly to the limit in that expanded inequality, where the non-corotational terms contain products of the form $|Q^n{|}^4{Q}^n:\nabla u^n$. It first obtains the physical free-energy inequality through a hyperviscous approximation and a localized tail estimate, and then derives the expanded inequality from a low-order chain rule for the bulk part of the energy. The last section records the elementary uniaxial reduction which explains why the present argument is restricted to stable bulk potentials.