Blow up criterion for nematic liquid crystal flows

Abstract

In this paper, we establish a blow up criterion for the short time classical solution of the nematic liquid crystal ow, a simplified version of Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the hydrodynamic evolution of nematic liquid crystals, in dimensions two and three. More precisely, $0<T_*<+\infty$ is the maximal time interval iff (i) for $n=3$, $|\omega|+|\nabla d|^2\notin L^1_tL^\infty_x(\mathbb R^3\times [0,T_*])$, and (ii) for $n=2$, $|\nabla|^2\notin L^1_tL^\infty_x(\mathbb R^2\times [0,T_*])$.