Nematic-Isotropic phase transition in Beris-Edward system at critical temperature

Abstract

We are concerned with the sharp interface limit for the Beris-Edward system in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ in this paper. The system can be described as the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with an evolution equation for the Q-tensor. We prove that the solutions to the Beris-Edward system converge to the corresponding solutions of a sharp interface model under well-prepared initial data, as the thickness of the diffuse interfacial zone tends to zero. Moreover, we give not only the spatial decay estimates of the velocity vector field in the $H^1$ sense but also the error estimates of the phase field. The analysis relies on the relative entropy method and elaborated energy estimates.