On the temporal decay of solutions to the two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows

Abstract

We consider the temporal decay estimates for weak solutions to the two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows, and we show that the energy norm of a global weak solution has non-uniform decay \begin{align*} \|u(t)\|_{L^{2}}+\|\nabla d(t)\|_{L^{2}}\rightarrow 0\quad \text{ as } t\rightarrow \infty, \end{align*} under suitable conditions on the initial data. We also show the exact rate of the decay (uniform decay) of the energy norm of the global weak solution.