Comptes Rendus. Mécanique (Feb 2021)

On the Eringen model for nematic liquid crystals

  • Chechkin, Gregory A.,
  • Ratiu, Tudor S.,
  • Romanov, Maxim S.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5802/crmeca.67
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 349, no. 1
pp. 21 – 27

Abstract

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We introduce the three-dimensional Eringen system of equations for the nematodynamics of liquid crystals, announce the short time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the one-dimensional problem in the periodic case, and show the continuous dependence of the solution on the initial data.

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