Global Well-posedness and Long-time Behavior of the General Ericksen--Leslie System in 2D under a Magnetic Field

Qingtong Wu

Published 2024-11-11Version 1

In this paper, we investigate the global well-posedness and long-time behavior of the general Ericksen--Leslie system in 2D under a magnetic field. The PDE system consists of Navier--Stokes equations and kinematic transport equations for the orientations of liquid crystal molecules. For liquid crystal molecules with fixed modulus in torus $\mathbb{T}^2$, we prove the well-posedness of steady-state solutions in order to prove that there exist global strong solutions to the general Ericksen--Leslie system, which are smooth away from the initial time, and the long-time behavior of the solutions is classified according to the $\mathbb{T}^2$ boundary conditions.