WIAS Preprint No. 2474, (2018)

Weak-strong uniqueness for measure-valued solutions to the Ericksen--Leslie model equipped with the Oseen--Frank free energy


Authors

  • Lasarzik, Robert
    ORCID: 0000-0002-1677-6925

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35Q35 35K52 76A15

Keywords

  • Liquid crystal, Ericksen-Leslie equation, measure-valued solution, weak-strong uniqueness

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2474

Abstract

We analyze the Ericksen-Leslie system equipped with the Oseen--Frank energy in three space dimensions. Recently, the author introduced the concept of measure-valued solutions to this system and showed the global existence of these generalized solutions. In this paper, we show that suitable measure-valued solutions, which fulfill an associated energy inequality, enjoy the weak-strong uniqueness property, i.e. the measure-valued solution agrees with a strong solution if the latter exists. The weak-strong uniqueness is shown by a relative energy inequality for the associated nonconvex energy functional.

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