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Jinkai Li

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arXiv2015

Local well-posedness of strong solutions to density-dependent liquid crystal system

In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem to the density-dependent liquid crystal system in $\mathbb R^3$. We establish the local existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to this system. In order to overcome the difficulties caused by the high order coupling terms, a biharmonic regularization of the system, as an auxiliary system, is introduced, and we make full use of the intrinsic cancellation properties between the high order coupling terms.

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arXiv2015

A Tropical Atmosphere Model with Moisture: Global Well-posedness and Relaxation Limit

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear interaction system between the barotropic mode and the first baroclinic mode of the tropical atmosphere with moisture; that was derived in [Frierson, D.M.W.; Majda, A.J.; Pauluis, O.M.: Dynamics of precipitation fronts in the tropical atmosphere: a novel relaxation limit, Commum. Math. Sci., 2 (2004), 591-626.] We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to this system, with initial data in $H^1$, for each fixed convective adjustment relaxation time parameter $\varepsilon>0$. Moreover, if the initial data enjoy slightly more regularity than $H^1$, then the unique strong solution depends continuously on the initial data. Furthermore, by establishing several appropriate $\varepsilon$-independent estimates, we prove that the system converges to a limiting system, as the relaxation time parameter $\varepsilon$ tends to zero, with convergence rate of the order $O(\sqrt\varepsilon)$. Moreover, the limiting system has a unique global strong solution, for any initial data in $H^1$, and such unique strong solution depends continuously on the initial data if the the initial data posses slightly more regularity than $H^1$. Notably, this solves the VISCOUS VERSION of an open problem proposed in the above mentioned paper of Frierson, Majda and Pauluis.

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arXiv2015

Global well-posedness of strong solutions to a tropical climate model

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the TROPIC CLIMATE MODEL derived by Frierson-Majda-Pauluis in [Comm. Math. Sci, Vol. 2 (2004)] which is a coupled system of the barotropic and the first baroclinic modes of the velocity and the typical midtropospheric temperature. The system considered in this paper has viscosities in the momentum equations, but no diffusivity in the temperature equation. We establish here the global well-posedness of strong solutions to this model. In proving the global existence of strong solutions, to overcome the difficulty caused by the absence of the diffusivity in the temperature equation, we introduce a new velocity $w$ (called the pseudo baroclinic velocity), which has more regularities than the original baroclinic mode of the velocity. An auxiliary function $ϕ$, which looks like the effective viscous flux for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, is also introduced to obtain the $L^\infty$ bound of the temperature. Regarding the uniqueness, we use the idea of performing suitable energy estimates at level one order lower than the natural basic energy estimates for the system.

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arXiv2015

Global well-posedness of the 2D Boussinesq equations with vertical dissipation

We prove the global well-posedness of the two-dimensional Boussinesq equations with only vertical dissipation. The initial data $(u_0,θ_0)$ are required to be only in the space $X=\{f\in L^2(\mathbb R^2)\,|\,\partial_xf\in L^2(\mathbb R^2)\}$, and thus our result generalizes that in [C. Cao, J. Wu, Global regularity for the two-dimensional anisotropic Boussinesq equations with vertical dissipation, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., Vol. 208 (2013), 985-1004], where the initial data are assumed to be in $H^2(\mathbb R^2)$. The assumption on the initial data is at the minimal level that is required to guarantee the uniqueness of the solutions. A logarithmic type limiting Sobolev embedding inequality for the $L^\infty(\mathbb R^2)$ norm, in terms of anisotropic Sobolev norms, and a logarithmic type Gronwall inequality are established to obtain the global in time a priori estimates, which guarantee the local solution to be a global one.

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arXiv2014

On the uniqueness of weak solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie liquid crystal model in $\mathbb R^2$

This paper concerns the uniqueness of weak solutions to the Cauchy problem to the Ericksen-Leslie system of liquid crystal models in $\mathbb R^2$, with both general Leslie stress tensors and general Oseen-Frank density. It is shown here that such a system admits a unique weak solution provided that the Frank coefficients are close to some positive constant, which solves an interesting open problem. One of the main ideas of our proof is to perform suitable energy estimates at level one order lower than the natural basic energy estimates for the Ericksen-Leslie system.

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arXiv2014

Global Well-posedness of the 3D Primitive Equations with Only Horizontal Viscosity and Diffusion

In this paper, we consider the initial-boundary value problem of the 3D primitive equations for planetary oceanic and atmospheric dynamics with only horizontal eddy viscosity in the horizontal momentum equations and only horizontal diffusion in the temperature equation. Global well-posedness of strong solution is established for any $H^2$ initial data. An $N$-dimensional logarithmic Sobolev embedding inequality, which bounds the $L^\infty$ norm in terms of the $L^q$ norms up to a logarithm of the $L^p$-norm, for $p>N$, of the first order derivatives, and a system version of the classic Gronwall inequality are exploited to establish the required a priori $H^2$ estimates for the global regularity.

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arXiv2014

Global Strong Solutions to Incompressible Ericksen-Leslie System in $\mathbb R^3$

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the Ericksen-Leslie system of liquid crystals in $\mathbb R^3$. Global well-posedness of strong solutions are obtained under the condition that the product of $\|u_0\|_2+\|\nabla d_0\|_2$ and $\|\nabla u_0\|_2+\|\nabla^2d_0\|_2$ is suitably small. This result can be viewed as a supplement to the local existence and blow up criteria discussed in \cite{Hong1}.

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arXiv2013

Global Existence of Strong Solutions to Incompressible MHD

We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the initial boundary value problem for incompressible MHD equations in a bounded smooth domain of three spatial dimensions with initial density being allowed to have vacuum, in particular, the initial density can vanish in a set of positive Lebessgue measure. More precisely, under the assumption that the production of the quantities $|\sqrtρ_0u_0|_{L^2(Ω)}^2+|H_0|_{L^2(Ω)}^2$ and $|\nabla u_0|_{L^2(Ω)}^2+|\nabla H_0|_{L^2(Ω)}^2$ is suitably small, with the smallness depending only on the bound of the initial density and the domain, we prove that there is a unique strong solution to the Dirichlet problem of the incompressible MHD system.

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arXiv2013

Global Weak Solutions to Non-isothermal Nematic Liquid Crystals in 2D

In this paper, we prove the global existence of weak solutions to the non-isothermal nematic liquid crystal system on $\mathbb T^2$, based on a new approximate system which is different from the classical Ginzburg-Landau approximation. Local energy inequalities are employed to recover the estimates on the second order spacial derivatives of the director fields locally in time, which cannot be derived from the basic energy balance. It is shown that these weak solutions conserve the total energy and while the kinetic and potential energies transfer to the heat energy precisely. Furthermore, it is also established that these weak solutions have at most finite many singular times at which the energy concentration occurs, and as a result, the temperature must increase suddenly at each singular time on some part of $\mathbb T^2$.

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arXiv2013

Liquid Crystal Equations with Infinite Energy Local Well-posedness and Blow Up Criterion

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem of the incompressible liquid crystal equations in $n$ dimensions. We prove the local well-posedness of mild solutions to the liquid crystal equations with $L^\infty$ initial data, in particular, the initial energy may be infinite. We prove that the solutions are smooth with respect to the space variables away from the initial time. Based on this regularity estimate, we employ the blow up argument and Liouville type theorems to establish vorticity direction type blow up criterions for the type I mild solutions established in the present paper.

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arXiv2013

Global Strong and Weak Solutions to Nematic Liquid Crystal Flow in Two Dimensions

We consider the strong and weak solutions to the Cauchy problem of the inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal equations in two dimensions. We first establish the local existence and uniqueness of strong solutions by using the standard domain expanding method, and then extend such local strong solution to be a global one, provided the initial density is away from vacuum and the initial direction field satisfies some geometric structure. The size of the initial data can be large. Based on such global existence results of strong solutions, by using compactness argument, we obtain the global existence of weak solutions with nonnegative initial density.

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arXiv2013

Blow-up criteria of strong solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in $\Bbb R^3$

In this paper, we establish the local well-posedness and blow-up criteria of strong solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in $\Bbb R^3$ for the well-known Oseen-Frank model. The local existence of strong solutions to liquid crystal flows is obtained by using the Ginzburg-Landau approximation approach to guarantee the constraint that the direction vector of the fluid is of length one. We establish four kinds of blow-up criteria, including (i) the Serrin type; (ii) the Beal-Kato-Majda type; (iii) the mixed type, i.e., Serrin type condition for one field and Beal-Kato-Majda type condition on the other one; (iv) a new one, which characterizes the maximal existence time of the strong solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system in terms of Serrin type norms of the strong solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau approximate system. Furthermore, we also prove that the strong solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau approximate system converge to the strong solution of the Ericksen-Leslie system up to the maximal existence time.

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arXiv2012

Global Strong Solutions to Incompressible Nematic Liquid Crystal Flow

In this paper, we consider the Dirichlet problem of inhomogeneous incompressible nematic liquid crystal equations in bounded smooth domains of two or three dimensions. We prove the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions with initial data being of small norm but allowed to have vacuum. More precisely, for two dimensional case, we only require that the basic energy $|\sqrt{ρ_0}u_0|_{L^2}^2+|\nabla d_0|_{L^2}^2$ is small, while for three dimensional case, we ask for the smallness of the production of the basic energy and the quantity $|\nabla u_0|_{L^2}^2+|\nabla^2d_0|_{L^2}^2$. Our efforts mainly center on the establishment of the time independent a priori estimate on local strong solutions. Taking advantage of such a priori estimate, we extend the local strong solution to the whole time, obtaining the global strong solution.

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