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Quantitative blow-up suppression for the Patlak-Keller-Segel(-Navier-Stokes) system via Couette flow on $\mathbb{R}^2$

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-05 v2

Abstract

It is well known that solutions to the Patlak--Keller--Segel system on R2\mathbb{R}^2 blow up in finite time if the initial mass exceeds 8π8\pi. In this paper, we investigate the mixing effect induced by a Couette flow (Ay,0)(Ay, 0) with a quantitatively determined amplitude AA, which suppresses bacterial aggregation. For the Patlak--Keller--Segel system advected by such a flow on R2\mathbb{R}^2, we prove that the solutions remain global in time even for large initial mass, provided the amplitude AA is sufficiently large. Specifically, global well-posedness holds if AA satisfies a lower bound of the form C(DxmDx1ϵninL22+1)9/2C_* \left(\| \langle D_x\rangle^{m} \langle {D_x}^{-1}\rangle^\epsilon n_{\mathrm{in}} \|_{L^2}^2+1\right)^{9/2}. A notable feature of our result is the explicit estimate of the sufficient constant, given by C=2,058,614C_* = 2,058,614. Furthermore, for the coupled Patlak--Keller--Segel--Navier--Stokes system near the Couette flow, we establish an analogous global existence result, provided the amplitude is sufficiently large in form of C(nin,Dx1/3nin,ωin)Ym,ϵ9C_*\|(n_{\rm in}, |D_x|^{1/3} n_{\rm in},\omega_{\rm in})\|_{Y_{m,\epsilon}}^9.

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@article{arxiv.2511.12915,
  title  = {Quantitative blow-up suppression for the Patlak-Keller-Segel(-Navier-Stokes) system via Couette flow on $\mathbb{R}^2$},
  author = {Yubo Chen and Wendong Wang and Guoxu Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12915},
  year   = {2025}
}