1. Interaction of liquid crystals with a rigid body.
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Binz, Tim, Brandt, Felix, Hieber, Matthias, and Roy, Arnab
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NEMATIC liquid crystals , *CRYSTAL models , *LIQUID crystals , *FLUID-structure interaction , *RIGID bodies - Abstract
This article investigates the interaction of nematic liquid crystals modeled by a simplified Ericksen-Leslie model with a rigid body. It is shown that this problem is locally strongly well-posed, and that it also admits a unique, global strong solution for initial data close to constant equilibria. The proof of the global strong solution relies on a new splitting method for the director in a mean value zero and average part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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