Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (Jan 2019)
Low Mach number limit of compressible nematic liquid crystal flows with well-prepared initial data in a 3D bounded domain
Abstract
In this article, we consider the low Mach number limit of the compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in a 3D bounded domain. We establish the uniform estimates with respect to the Mach number for the strong solutions with large initial data in a short time interval. Consequently, we obtain the convergence of the compressible nematic liquid crystal system to the incompressible nematic liquid crystals system as the Mach number tends to zero.