Global Existence and Large-Time Asymptotic Behavior of Strong Solutions to the Two-Dimensional Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows with Large Initial Data and Vacuum
Abstract
This paper studies the two-dimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows with planar orientation fields taking values in 𝕊1. For the initial-boundary value problem in bounded domains with density-dependent viscosity, we establish the global existence and exponential decay of strong solutions with initial density allowing vacuum, provided that |∇ μ(ρ0)|Lq is sufficiently small for some q>2. The smallness condition is automatically satisfied when μ is constant, and hence the result yields the global existence of strong solutions for arbitrarily large initial data in the constant viscosity case. Furthermore, for the Cauchy problem with constant viscosity and either vacuum or non-vacuum far-field density, we establish the global existence and large-time decay rates of strong solutions for arbitrarily large initial data. These results are obtained without imposing any geometric angle conditions on the initial orientation field.
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BibTeX
@misc{lei2026global,
title = {{Global Existence and Large-Time Asymptotic Behavior of Strong Solutions to the Two-Dimensional Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows with Large Initial Data and Vacuum}},
author = {Qinghao Lei and Lu Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.23760},
eprint = {2609.23760},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23760},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Global Existence and Large-Time Asymptotic Behavior of Strong Solutions to the Two-Dimensional Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows with Large Initial Data and Vacuum
AU - Qinghao Lei
AU - Lu Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.23760
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23760
AB - This paper studies the two-dimensional nonhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows with planar orientation fields taking values in 𝕊^1. For the initial-boundary value problem in bounded domains with density-dependent viscosity, we establish the global existence and exponential decay of strong solutions with initial density allowing vacuum, provided that |∇ μ(ρ_0)|_L^q is sufficiently small for some q>2. The smallness condition is automatically satisfied when μ is constant, and hence the result yields the global existence of strong solutions for arbitrarily large initial data in the constant viscosity case. Furthermore, for the Cauchy problem with constant viscosity and either vacuum or non-vacuum far-field density, we establish the global existence and large-time decay rates of strong solutions for arbitrarily large initial data. These results are obtained without imposing any geometric angle conditions on the initial orientation field.
ER -