Global weak solutions in a three-dimensional Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system involving a tensor-valued sensitivity with saturation (Q512642)

Keller and Segel proposed the following system to model the chemotaxis \[ n_t = \Delta n - \nabla\cdot (nS(n,c)\nabla c), \,\,\,\, x \in \Omega \,\,\,\, t > 0 \] \[ c_t = \Delta c - c + n,\,\,\,\, x \in \Omega \,\,\,\, t > 0, \] where \(n = n(x,t)\) and \(c = c(x,t)\) stand for the density of cell population and the concentration of chemoattractant, respectively, and \(S = S(n, c)\) represents the chemotactic sensitivity. Many authors studied this differential system. In this paper, the authors consider the case when chemotaxis occurs in incompressible fluid, and the original chemotaxis system needs to be coupled with a Navier-Stokes-type equation which characterizes the motion of the fluid. In the case \(\Omega \in {\mathbb R}^3\), the Authors prove the existence of a global weak solution if \[ |S(x,n,c)| \leq\frac{C_S}{(1 + n)^\alpha} \] with some \(C_S > 0\) and \(\alpha \geq \frac37\).