We consider a complex fluid modeling nematic liquid crystal flows, which is described by a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations with a parabolic Q-tensor system. We first prove the global existence of weak solutions in dimension three. Furthermore, the global well-posedness of strong solutions is studied with sufficiently large viscosity of fluid. Finally, we show a continuous dependence result on the initial data which directly yields the weak-strong uniqueness of solutions.
In two dimensions, we study the compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals with periodic boundary conditions. As shown by Ding et al. （2013）, when the parameter λ→∞ oo, the solutions to the compressible liquid crystal system approximate that of the incompressible one. Furthermore, Ding et al. （2013） proved that the regular incompressible limit solution is global in time with small enough initial data. In this paper, we show that the solution to the compressible liquid crystal flow also exists for all time, provided that is sufficiently large and the initial data are almost incompressible.
In this article, we consider the blowup criterion for the local strong solution to the compressible fluid-particle interaction model in dimension three with vacuum. We establish a BKM type criterion for possible breakdown of such solutions at critical time in terms of both the L^∞ （0, T; L^6）-norm of the density of particles and the ^L1（0, T; L^∞）-norm of the deformation tensor of velocity gradient.
