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Prescribed signal concentration on the boundary: Weak solvability in a chemotaxis-Stokes system with proliferation

Analysis of PDEs 2021-06-17 v1

Abstract

We study a chemotaxis-Stokes system with signal consumption and logistic source terms of the form \noindent \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{r@{\ }l@{\quad}l@{\quad}l@{\,}c} n_{t}+u\cdot\!\nabla n&=\Delta n-\nabla\!\cdot(n\nabla c)+\kappa n-\mu n^{2},\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\ c_{t}+u\cdot\!\nabla c&=\Delta c-nc,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\ u_{t}&=\Delta u+\nabla P+n\nabla\phi,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\ \nabla\cdot u&=0,\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\ \big(\nabla n-n\nabla c\big)\cdot\nu&=0,\quad c=c_{\star}(x),\quad u=0, &x\in\partial\Omega,& t>0, \end{array}\right. \end{align*} where κ0\kappa\geq0, μ>0\mu>0 and, in contrast to the commonly investigated variants of chemotaxis-fluid systems, the signal concentration on the boundary of the domain ΩRN\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N with N{2,3}N\in\{2,3\}, is a prescribed time-independent nonnegative function cC2 ⁣(Ω)c_{\star}\in C^{2}\!\big(\overline{\Omega}\big). Making use of the boundedness information entailed by the quadratic decay term of the first equation, we will show that the system above has at least one global weak solution for any suitably regular triplet of initial data.

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@article{arxiv.2010.13455,
  title  = {Prescribed signal concentration on the boundary: Weak solvability in a chemotaxis-Stokes system with proliferation},
  author = {Tobias Black and Chunyan Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13455},
  year   = {2021}
}

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