Global very weak solutions to a chemotaxis-fluid system with nonlinear diffusion

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Abstract: We consider the chemotaxis-fluid system �egin{align}label{star} ag{diamondsuit} left{ �egin{array}{r@{,}c@{,}c@{ }l@{quad}l@{quad}l@{,}c} n_{t}&+&ucdot!

abla n&=Delta n^m- abla!cdot(n abla c), &xinOmega,& t>0,\ c_{t}&+&ucdot! abla c&=Delta c-c+n, &xinOmega,& t>0,\ u_{t}&+&(ucdot abla)u&=Delta u+ abla P+n ablaphi, &xinOmega,& t>0,\ &&

ablacdot u&=0, &xinOmega,& t>0, end{array} ight. end{align} in a bounded domain OmegasubsetmathbbR3 with smooth boundary and m>1. Assuming m>frac43 and sufficiently regular nonnegative initial data, we ensure the existence of global solutions to the no-flux-Dirichlet boundary value problem for eqref{star} under a suitable notion of very weak solvability, which in different variations has been utilized in the literature before. Comparing this with known results for the fluid-free setting of eqref{star} the condition appears to be optimal with respect to global existence. In case of the stronger assumption m>frac53 we moreover establish the existence of at least one global weak solution in the standard sense. In our analysis we investigate a functional of the form intOmega!nm1+intOmega!c2 to obtain a spatio-temporal L2 estimate on ablanm1, which will be the starting point in deriving a series of compactness properties for a suitably regularized version of eqref{star}. As the regularity information obtainable from these compactness results vary depending on the size of m, we will find that taking m>frac53 will yield sufficient regularity to pass to the limit in the integrals appearing in the weak formulation, while for m>frac43 we have to rely on milder regularity requirements making only very weak solutions attainable.



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