A priori bounds for reaction-diffusion systems arising in chemical and biological dynamics (Q1774912)

The authors study reaction diffusion systems of the following form: \[ \frac{\partial u_k}{\partial t}=d_k\Delta u_k+L_k(u)+f_{k-1}(u)+g_k(x,u),\quad x\in\Omega\subset\mathbb R^m,\;t>0,\;k=1,\dots,n \] with \(u=(u_1,\dots,u_n)\), \(f_0(u)=0\) and homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The system can be written as \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=D\Delta u+L(u)+R(x,u),\quad x\in\Omega\subset\mathbb R^m,\;t>0, \] where \(D\) is a diagonal matrix. The authors show the following results: The solutions of the steady state problem are bounded in the Sobolev space \(H^1(\Omega)\). If the initial data is in \(L^2(\Omega)\), resp. \(u_k(0)\in L^2(\Omega)\) for all \(k\), then there exist uniform positive constants \(M_k\) (independent of \(t\)), such that the \(W^{m,2}(\Omega)\) norm of \(u_k\) is bounded by \(M_k\) for \(k=1,\dots,n\). For space dimension two or three they prove that the \(u_k\) are in \(C^{2,\alpha}\) and that the \(\omega\)-limit set is a compact set. Models that belong to the considered class of systems are for example the Gray-Scott system, the Selkov model of glycolysis and the SIR model.