Boundedness and stabilization in a predator-prey model with prey-taxis and disease in predator species (Q2685240)

In this paper, the authors consider the following prey-taxis model with disease in predator \[ \begin{cases} u_t=d_1\Delta u-\chi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla w)-(a+\gamma)u+\delta v+kuF(w), &x\in\Omega,\ t>0, \\ v_t=d_2\Delta v-\xi\nabla\cdot(v\nabla w)-(b+\delta)v+\gamma u+cvF(w), &x\in\Omega,\ t>0, \\ w_t=d_3\Delta w-(u+v)F(w)+f(w), &x\in\Omega,\ t>0, \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}=\frac{\partial v}{\partial\nu}=\frac{\partial w}{\partial\nu}=0, &x\in\partial\Omega,\ t>0, \\ u(x,0)=u_0(x),\ v(x,0)=v_0(x),\ w(x,0)=w_0(x), &x\in\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) \((n\ge1)\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\) and \(\frac{\partial}{\partial\nu}\) denotes the outer unit normal vector of \(\partial\Omega\). Here \(u = u(x, t), v = v(x, t)\) and \(w = w(x, t)\) represent the densities of the healthy predators, sick predators and prey, respectively. The parameters \(\chi,\xi, d_1, d_2, d_3, \gamma, \delta, a, b, c\) and \(k\) are positive constants. \(F(w)\) is the so-called functional response function accounting for the predator's feeding rate as a function of prey density, and \(f(w)\) represents the prey growth function. In two dimensional case, it is shown that for all suitably regular initial data this model admits globally-defined bounded classical solutions, while in three-dimensional setting, global bounded classical solutions have been investigated provided that some technical conditions are fulfilled. Moreover, by constructing a suitable Lyapunov functional, the authors obtain asymptotic stability if the predator is weak.