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Eventual smoothness of generalized solutions to a singular chemotaxis-Stokes system

Analysis of PDEs 2018-05-25 v1

Abstract

We study the chemotaxis-fluid system \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{r@{\,}c@{\,}c@{\ }l@{\quad}l@{\quad}l@{\,}c} n_{t}&+&u\cdot\!\nabla n&=\Delta n-\nabla\!\cdot(\frac{n}{c}\nabla c),\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0, c_{t}&+&u\cdot\!\nabla c&=\Delta c-nc,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0, u_{t}&+&\nabla P&=\Delta u+n\nabla\phi,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0, &&\nabla\cdot u&=0,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0, \end{array}\right. \end{align*} under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions for nn and cc and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for uu, where ΩR2\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2 is a bounded domain with smooth boundary and ϕC2(Ωˉ)\phi\in C^{2}\left(\bar{\Omega}\right). From recent results it is known that for suitable regular initial data, the corresponding initial-boundary value problem possesses a global generalized solution. We will show that for small initial mass Ω ⁣n0\int_{\Omega}\!n_0 these generalized solutions will eventually become classical solutions of the system and obey certain asymptotic properties. Moreover, from the analysis of certain energy-type inequalities arising during the investigation of the eventual regularity, we will also derive a result on global existence of classical solutions under assumption of certain smallness conditions on the size of n0n_0 in L1 ⁣(Ω)L^1\!\left(\Omega\right) and in LlogL ⁣(Ω)L\log L\!\left(\Omega\right), u0u_0 in L4 ⁣(Ω)L^4\!\left(\Omega\right), and of c0\nabla c_0 in L2 ⁣(Ω)L^2\!\left(\Omega\right).

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@article{arxiv.1705.06131,
  title  = {Eventual smoothness of generalized solutions to a singular chemotaxis-Stokes system},
  author = {Tobias Black},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06131},
  year   = {2018}
}

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