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Bifurcation and stability of stationary shear flows of Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystals

Weishi Liu·Majed Sofiani
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In this work, focusing on a critical case for shear flows of nematic liquid crystals, we investigate multiplicity and stability of stationary solutions via the parabolic Ericksen-Leslie system. We establish a one-to-one correspondence between the set of the stationary solutions with the set of the solutions of an algebraic equation for a cusp case. This one-to-one correspondence is established essentially based on the treatment in the work of Jiao, et. al. [{\em J. Diff. Dyn. Syst. {\bf 34} (2022), 239-269}] for a different case, and the relation gives directly parameter ranges for existence of multiple stationary solutions; in particular, multiple stationary solutions are created through countably many saddle-node bifurcations for the algebraic equation at critical shear speeds. The main result of the paper is on the stability of stationary solutions associated to the bifurcations; more precisely, (i) for each critical shear speed, there is a unique stationary solution and, for smaller shear speed, the stationary solution disappears but, for larger shear speed, two stationary solutions nearby bifurcate; (ii) more importantly, under a generic condition, there is a simple zero eigenvalue for the linearization of the shear flow at the critical stationary solution and, for larger shear speed, the zero eigenvalue bifurcates to a negative eigenvalue for one of the two stationary solutions and to a positive eigenvalue for the other stationary solution.

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Weishi Liu, Majed Sofiani. 2025-08-26. Bifurcation and stability of stationary shear flows of Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystals. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19125

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