Some results on the penalised nematic liquid crystals driven by multiplicative noise

Abstract

In this paper we prove several results related to the existence and uniqueness of solution to coupled highly nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations (PDEs). These equations are motivated by the dynamics of nematic liquid crystals under the influence of stochastic external forces. Firstly, we prove the existence of global weak solution (in sense of both stochastic analysis and PDEs). We show the pathwise uniqueness of the solution in 2D domain. Secondly, we establish the existence and uniqueness of local maximal solution which is strong in sense of both PDEs and stochastic analysis. In the 2D case, we show that this solution is global. In contrast to several works in the deterministic setting we replace the Ginzburg-Landau function ${1}_{\lvert \mathbf{n}\rvert \le 1}(\lvert \mathbf{n}\rvert^2-1)\mathbf{n}$ by a general polynomial $f(\mathbf{n})$ and we give sufficient conditions on the polynomial $f$ for the aforementioned results to hold. As a by-product of our investigation we present a general method based on fixed point argument to establish the existence and uniqueness of a local maximal solution of an abstract stochastic evolution equations with coefficients satisfying local Lipschitz condition involving the norms of two different Banach spaces. This general method can be used to treat several stochastic hydrodynamical models such as Navier-Stokes, Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, and the $\alpha$-models of Navier-Stokes equations and their MHD counterparts.