Spherically symmetric solutions to compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in N dimensions

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the system modeling the compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals with radially symmetric initial data and non-negative initial density in dimension N (N ≥ 2). The authors obtain the existence of global radially symmetric strong solutions in a bounded or unbounded annular domain for any γ > 1.

Keywords

Liquid crystals / Compressible hydrodynamic flow / Global solutions

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