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2021, Issue 6: 3817-3832. doi: 10.3934/era.2021063
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# On mathematical analysis of complex fluids in active hydrodynamics

• Received: 01 May 2021 Revised: 01 June 2021 Published: 13 August 2021
• Primary: 35Q35, 76D05; Secondary: 76A15

• This is a survey article for this special issue providing a review of the recent results in the mathematical analysis of active hydrodynamics. Both the incompressible and compressible models are discussed for the active liquid crystals in the Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor framework. The mathematical results on the weak solutions, regularity, and weak-strong uniqueness are presented for the incompressible flows. The global existence of weak solution to the compressible flows is recalled. Other related results on the inhomogeneous flows, incompressible limits, and stochastic analysis are also reviewed.

Citation: Yazhou Chen, Dehua Wang, Rongfang Zhang. On mathematical analysis of complex fluids in active hydrodynamics[J]. Electronic Research Archive, 2021, 29(6): 3817-3832. doi: 10.3934/era.2021063

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• This is a survey article for this special issue providing a review of the recent results in the mathematical analysis of active hydrodynamics. Both the incompressible and compressible models are discussed for the active liquid crystals in the Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor framework. The mathematical results on the weak solutions, regularity, and weak-strong uniqueness are presented for the incompressible flows. The global existence of weak solution to the compressible flows is recalled. Other related results on the inhomogeneous flows, incompressible limits, and stochastic analysis are also reviewed.

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