Global dynamics in a higher-dimensional repulsion chemotaxis model with nonlinear sensitivity (Q380074)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded convex domain of \(\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 3\), with smooth boundary and consider two non-negative functions \(u_0\in C(\bar{\Omega})\) and \(v_0\in C^1(\bar{\Omega})\). The existence, uniqueness, and uniform boundedness of a global classical solution \((u,v)\) to the chemorepulsion system \[ \begin{aligned} \partial_t u &=\mathrm{div}( \nabla u+f(u)\nabla v),\quad x\in\Omega,\, t>0, \\ \partial_t v &= \Delta v+u- v,\quad x\in\Omega ,\, t>0, \\ \partial_\nu u &=\partial_\nu v=0,\quad x \in \partial\Omega ,\, t >0,\\ u(0) &= u_0, \, v(0) = v_0, \quad x\in\Omega ,\end{aligned} \] are proved under the assumption that \(f\in C^2([0,\infty))\) satisfies \(f(0)=0\) and \(0<f(u)<K (1+u)^\alpha\), \(u>0\), for some \(\alpha\in (0,4/(n+2))\) and \(K>0\). It is further shown that, as \(t\to\infty\), \((u(t),v(t))\) converges in \(L^\infty(\Omega)\) towards a spatially homogeneous steady state \((\bar{u}_0,\bar{v}_0)\) given by \[ \bar{u}_0 = \frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int_\Omega u_0(x)\;dx, \quad \bar{v}_0 = \frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int_\Omega v_0(x)\;dx. \] The starting point of the proof is the availability of a Liapunov functional while the convexity of \(\Omega\) comes into play when deriving estimates on \(\nabla v\).