Abstract

The paper is concerned with a simplified system, proposed by Ericksen [6] and Leslie [20], modeling the flow of nematic liquid crystals. In the first part, we give a new Serrin's continuation principle for strong solutions of general compressible liquid crystal flows. Based on new observations, we establish a localized Serrin's regularity criterion for the 3D compressible spherically symmetric flows. It is proved that the classical solution loses its regularity in finite time if and only if, either the concentration or vanishing of mass forms or the norm inflammation of gradient of orientation field occurs around the center.

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