Seminar series
Date
Mon, 09 Feb 2015
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
L4
Speaker
Min-Chun Hong
Organisation
The University of Queensland
The dynamic flow of liquid crystals is described by the Ericksen-Leslie system. The Ericksen-Leslie system is a system of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the gradient flow for the Oseen-Frank model, which generalizes the heat flow for harmonic maps into the $2$-sphere. In this talk, we will outline a proof of global existence of solutions of the Ericksen-Leslie system for a general Oseen-Frank model in 2D.