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Behaviour at infinite time of Nematic Phase Problem Mouhamadou Samsidy Goudiaby + Supervisors Blanca Climent-Ezquerra , Francisco Guilln-Gonzales , + EDAN, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. UFR SAT, LANI, Universit Gaston Berger,


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Behaviour at infinite time of Nematic Phase Problem

Mouhamadou Samsidy Goudiaby + Supervisors Blanca Climent-Ezquerra∗, Francisco Guillén-Gonzales∗,

+ EDAN, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. ∗ UFR SAT, LANI, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal.

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What is a liquid crystal ? Nematic Model Behaviour at infinite time

1 What is a liquid crystal ? 2 Nematic Model 3 Behaviour at infinite time

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What is a liquid crystal ? Nematic Model Behaviour at infinite time

1 What is a liquid crystal ? 2 Nematic Model 3 Behaviour at infinite time

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What is a liquid crystal ? Nematic Model Behaviour at infinite time

What is a liquid crystal ?

Liquid crystals (LCs) are substances which exhibit an intermediate phase of matter that has properties between those of a conventional liquid and those of a solid crystal. Discovering of liquid crystals attributed to the Austrian botanist Friedrich Richard Reinitzer in 1888. Otto Lehmann, a German physicist solved the problem with description of a new state of matter midway between a liquid and a crystal. In 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, a French physicist received the Nobel Prize because of issues related to (LC).

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What is a liquid crystal ?

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Some LC phases Nematic : no positional order but long-range orientational

  • rder.

Smectic : well-defined layers and orientational order.

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Nematic

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Smectic A

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Nematic-Smectic

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What is a liquid crystal ? Nematic Model Behaviour at infinite time

What is a liquid crystal ?

LCs in nature Forming biological membrane, Protein solution generate silk of spider, DNA and polypeptides. Some technological applications Liquid crystal displays (LCD), Construction of optics blinds.

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What is a liquid crystal ? Nematic Model Behaviour at infinite time

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Nematic model

Simplified model by [Lin’89], [Lin,Liu’95], [Lin,Liu’00] and [Coutand,Shkoller’01] Original equations by Ericksen and Leslie, during 1958-1968. Elements in LC model Studied d, an unit vectorial function modeling the orientation of the crystals molecules. Approximation by Ginzburg-Landau penalization, |d| = 1 is relaxed by |d| ≤ 1 using f (d) = 1

ǫ2 (|d|2 − 1)d

Oseen Frank energy (elastic energy) Ee =

1 2|∇d|2 + F(d)

  • ,

F(n) = 1 4ǫ2 (|n|2 − 1)2 is a potential function of f (n), i.e. f (n) = ∇nF(n) Euler-Lagrange system w ≡ −∆d + f (d) = 0

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Nematic model

We assume the liquid crystal confined in an open bounded domain Ω ⊂ RN (N = 2 or 3) with regular boundary ∂Ω. u : Ω × [0, +∞) → RN is the flow velocity, p : Ω × [0, +∞) → R is the fluid pressure, d : Ω × [0, +∞) → R3 is the orientation vector. We denote Q = (0, +∞) × Ω, = (0, +∞) × ∂Ω, the Lp norm is denoted by | · |p, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, and the Hm norm by || · ||m Conservation of angular momentum ∂td + (u · ∇)d − ∆d + f (d) = 0, Conservation of linear momentum ∂tu + (u · ∇)u − ν∆u + ∇p + (∇d)t(−∆d + f (d)) = 0, ∇ · u = 0

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Nematic model

Nematic Model    ∂tu + (u · ∇)u − ν∆u + ∇p + (∇d)t(−∆d + f (d)) = 0, ∇ · u = 0 ∂td + (u · ∇)d − ∆d + f (d) = 0, (1) Initial conditions u(x, 0) = u0(x), d(x, 0) = d0(x) in Ω. (2) Boundary conditions u(x, t) = 0, d(x, t) = d0(x)

  • n

∂Ω × (0, T) (3)

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What is a liquid crystal ? Nematic Model Behaviour at infinite time

Some results

Time-independent boundary data for initial value problem F.H. Lin, C. Liu. Non-parabolic dissipative systems modeling the flow of liquid crystals, 1995. Time-dependent boundary data

  • B. Climent-Ezquerra, F. Guillén-González, M. J.

Moreno-Iraberte, Regularity and time-periodicity for a nematic liquid crystal model, 2009.

  • F. Guillén-González, M. A. Rodríguez-Bellido, and M. A.

Rojas-Medar, Sufficient conditions for regularity and uniqueness of a 3D nematic liquid crystal model, 2009.

  • B. Climent-Ezquerra, F. Guillén-González, M. Rojas-Medar,

Reproductivity for a nematic liquid crystal model, 2006.

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Energy law The total energy

E(u(t), d(t)) = 1 2|u(t)|2

2 + 1

2|∇d(t)|2

2 +

F(d(t)) Ec(u(t)) = 1 2|u(t)|2

2

Ee(d(t)) = 1

2|∇d(t)|2 2 +

  • Ω F(d(t))

Energy law

d dt E(u(t), d(t)) + ν|∇u(t)|2

2 + | − ∆d(t) + f (d(t))|2 2 = 0

(4)

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The initial-value problem at infinite time

Definition (Weak solution). We say that (u, d) is a weak solution of (1)-(14) in (0, +∞) if ∇ · u = 0, u = 0, d = h, ||(u(t), d(t))||0×1 ≤ C1 ∀ t ≥ 0 (5) ∀ γ > 0, e−γt t eγs||(u(t), d(t))||2

1×2ds ≤ C2,

∀ t ≥ 0, (6) Definition (Strong solution). A weak solution (u, d) of (1)-(14) is a strong solution in (0, +∞) if ||(u(t), d(t))||1×2 ≤ C3 ∀ t ≥ 0 (7) ∀ γ > 0, e−γt t eγs||(u(t), d(t))||2

2×3ds ≤ C4,

∀ t ≥ 0, (8)

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Main result (Asymptotic stability)

Let Ω, d0 be regular enough, with |d0| ≤ 1 in ¯ Ω, assume (u0, d0) ∈ H1 × H2 and ||(u0, d0)||1×2 ≤ C. If (u(t), d(t)) is a strong solution of (1)-(14) in (0, +∞), then the total enery E(u(t), d(t)) ց E∞ = Ee(¯ d) when t ↑ +∞, where ¯ d is a critical point of elastic energy, that is, a solution of the stationary problem −∆¯ d + f (¯ d) = 0 in Ω ¯ d|∂Ω = h. (9) Moreover, (u(t), d(t)) satisfies u(t) − → 0 in H1

0, ∆d(t)−f (d(t)) −

→ 0 in L2 and d(t) − → ¯ d in H2.

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First step (Theorem 1)

Let Ω, d0 be regular enough, with |d0| ≤ 1 in ¯ Ω, assume (u0, d0) ∈ H1 × H2 and ||(u0, d0)||1×2 ≤ M0. If (u(t), d(t)) is a strong solution of (1)-(14) in (0, +∞), then the total enery E(u(t), d(t)) ց E∞ ≥ 0, as t ↑ +∞ and u(t) − → 0 in H1

0(Ω), ∆d(t) − f (d(t)) −

→ 0 in L2(Ω), as t ↑ +∞

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Sketch of the proof

Weak estimation d dt E(u(t), d(t)) + G(u(t), d(t)) ≤ 0 Strong estimation d dt G(u(t), d(t)) ≤ C

  • G(u(t), d(t))3 + 1
  • .

where G(u(t), d(t)) = ν|∇u(t)|2

2 + | − ∆d(t) + f (d(t))|2 2.

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Strong estimation

General Framework E(t), G(t) ≥ 0, E

′(t) + G(t) ≤ 0

a.e. t ∈ (t0, +∞) Then, E ∈ Cb[t0, +∞), is a decreasing function and there exists E∞ ≥ 0 such that lim

t→+∞ E(t) = E∞.

Let G ∈ L1(t0, +∞) be a function satisfying G

′(t) ≤ C(G(t)3 + 1). Then,

lim

t→+∞ G(t) = 0.

  • B. Climent-Ezquerra, F. Guillén-González, M. J.

Rodríguez-Bellido, Stability for nematic liquid crystals with stretching terms, 2009. General Framework + Weak estimation ⇒ E(u(t), d(t)) ց E∞ ≥ 0, General Framework + Strong estimation ⇒ lim

t→+∞

  • |∇u(t)|2 + | − ∆d(t) + f (d(t))|2
  • = 0,
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Second step (Theorem 2)

E∞ = Ee(¯ d) where ¯ d is a critical point of elastic energy, that is, a solution of the stationary problem −∆¯ d + f (¯ d) = 0 in Ω ¯ d|∂Ω = h. (10)

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ω-limit set

Let S be the set S =

  • (0, d), / − ∆d + f (d) = 0 in Ω

d|∂Ω = h

  • (11)

The ω-limit set of (u0, d0) ∈ V × H2 ⊂ L2 × H1 with respect to the strong solution in (0, +∞) of problem (1)-(14) is defined as follow ω((u0, d0)) =

u(x), ¯ d(x)), / there exist {tn} ր +∞ such that (u(x, tn), d(x, tn)) → (¯ u(x), ¯ d(x)) in L2 × H1 Proposition ω((u0, d0)) is a nonempty bounded subset in H1 × H2 and w((u0, d0)) ⊂ S.

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ω-limit set

Using Poincaré Inequality and the strong estimation u(tn) − → 0 in L2, −∆d(tn)+f (d(tn)) − → 0 in L2, tn → +∞ Strong solution definition. Convergence in H1 ω(u0, d0)) is a nonempty bounded subset in H1 × H2 and it consist of a single point (0, ¯ d) Weak convergence in H2 and Convergence in H1 , then −∆d + f (d) = 0 Convergence in H1 + Convergence in L2 + Unicity of the limit shows that E∞ = Ee(¯ d)

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Third step (Theorem 3)

d(t) − → ¯ d in H2 when t ↑ +∞.

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Lojasiewicz-Simon type inequality

  • S. Lojasiewicz, Une propriété topologique des

sous-ensembles analytiques réels, 1963. Lemma (Lojasiewicz-Simon type inequality) Let ¯ d be a critical point of Ee(¯ d) subject to d ∈ H1 with the boundary condition d|∂Ω = h. There exist constant θ ∈ (0, 1/2) and β > 0 depending on ¯ d such that for any d ∈ H1 satisfying d|∂Ω = h and ||d(t) − ¯ d||1 < β, there holds |Ee(d) − Ee(¯ d)|1−θ ≤ || − ∆d + f (d)||−1. (12)

  • H. Wu, Long-time behaviour for nonlinear hydrodynamic

system modeling the nematic liquid crystal flows 2010.

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Proposition 1

Proposition Let (0, ¯ d) ∈ ω((u0, d0)). Assume that for all t ∈ [t0, t1) one has ||d(t) − ¯ d||1 < β and Ee( ¯ d) < E(u(t), d(t)), then the following differential inequality holds L-S I C θ d dt

  • E(u(t), d(t))−Ee(¯

d) θ +G(u(t), d(t))1/2 ≤ 0, ∀ t ∈ [t0, t1), and IPD t1

t0

|∂td(t)|2dt ≤ C θ

  • E(u(t0), d(t0)) − Ee(¯

d) θ.

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Proposition 2

Proposition Assume Ee( ¯ d) < E(u(t), d(t)) for all t ≥ 0 and let (0, ¯ d) ∈ ω((u0, d0)) and {tn} ր +∞ such that d(tn) → ¯ d in H1, then there exists n0 big enough such that for all t ≥ tn0 > 0, ||d(t) − ¯ d||1 < β.

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Sketch of the proof

d(tn) → ¯ d in H1 and E(u(tn), d(tn)) → E∞ = Ee(¯ d) then for any ε ∈ (0, β), there exists N(ε) / n ≥ N ||d(·, tn) − ¯ d||1 < ε, C θ

  • E(u(tn), d(tn)) − Ee(¯

d) θ < ε. (13) n ≥ N, ¯ tn = sup{t > tn/||d(·, s) − ¯ d||1 < β, ∀ s ∈ [tn, t]}. ¯ tn > tn, for all n ≥ N. Assume that ¯ tn is finite. Use the former differential inequality lim

n→+∞ |d(¯

tn) − ¯ d|2 = 0 Relative compactness of d(t) in H1 n is sufficiently large, ||d(¯ tn) − ¯ d||1 < β Contradiction because ||d(¯ tn) − ¯ d||1 = β

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Proposition 3

Proposition d(t) → ¯ d in H2 as t → +∞. Proof: Case 1 : If there is a t0 > 0 such that E(u(t0), d(t0)) = Ee(¯ d), then d(t) = ¯ d for t > t0 Case 2 : t ≥ tn0, L-S I and IPD implies ,

  • d(t))t≥tn0 is a Cauchy

sequence in L2 lim

t→+∞ |d(t) − ¯

d|2 = 0. d(t) is uniformly bounded in H2, lim

t→+∞ ||d(t) − ¯

d||1 = 0. Finally lim

t→+∞ ||d(t) − ¯

d||2 = 0

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Some results

  • H. Wu, Long-time behaviour for nonlinear hydrodynamic

system modeling the nematic liquid crystal flows 2010.

  • H. Wu, S. Zheng, Convergence to equilibrium for a

Cahn-Hilliard model with the dynamic boundary conditions, 2004.

  • H. Wu, M. Grasselli, S. Zheng, Convergence to equilibrium

for a parabolic-hyperbolic phase-field system with Neumann boundary conditions, 2007.

  • C. Liu, H. Wu, X. Xu, Asymptotic behaviour of a

hydrodynamic system in the nematic liquid crystal flows, 2009.

  • M. Grasselli, H. Wu, S. Zheng, Convergence to equilibrium

for a parabolic-hyperbolic time dependent Ginzburg-Landau-Maxwell equations, 2009.

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The future!!

1 Neumann boundary condition 2 Numerical analysis on the Nematic model 3 Behaviour at infinite time of a smectic A model

   ∂tu + (u · ∇)u − ν∆u − ∇ · σd

nl − w∇ϕ + ∇p = 0,

∇ · u = 0 ∂tϕ + (u · ∇)ϕ + w = 0, w = ∆2ϕ − ∇ · f (∇ϕ) Initial conditions u(x, 0) = u0(x), ϕ(x, 0) = ϕ0(x) in Ω. Boundary conditions u|∂Ω = 0, ϕ|∂Ω = ϕ1(x), ∂nϕ|∂Ω = ϕ2(x)

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That’s All! Thanks for your attention!!!

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