TY - JOUR T1 - Global Solutions of Nematic Liquid Crystal Flow in Dimension Two AU - Chen , Yuan AU - Yu , Yong JO - Communications in Mathematical Analysis and Applications VL - 3 SP - 304 EP - 356 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/09 SN - 2 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cmaa.2023-0004 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cmaa/22016.html KW - Ericksen-Leslie system, circulation Reynolds number, vorticity formulation. AB -

In this article we are concerned with a simplified Ericksen-Leslie system on $\mathbb{R}^2,$ whose bounded domain case was considered in [Lin et al., Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 197 (2010), 297–336]. With a study of its vorticity-stream formulation, we establish a global existence result of weak solutions when initial orientation has finite energy and initial vorticity function lies in $L^1 (\mathbb{R}^2).$