Stabilization in a two-dimensional chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system

DOI10.1007/S00205-013-0678-9MaRDI QIDQ2436333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 24 February 2014

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5929

chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system populations of swimming aerobic bacteria stabilization uniform equilibrium

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.) (92C17) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: The chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system linking the chemotaxis equations [ n_t + ucdot

abla n = Delta n - abla cdot (nchi(c) abla c) ] and [ c_t + ucdot abla c = Delta c-nf(c) ] to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, [ u_t + (ucdot abla)u = Delta u + abla P + n abla Phi, qquad

abla cdot u = 0, ] is considered under homogeneous boundary conditions of Neumann type for

n

and

c

, and of Dirichlet type for

u

, in a bounded convex domain

O m e g a s u b s e t R^{3}

with smooth boundary, where

P h i i n W^{1, i n f t y} (O m e g a)

, and where

f i n C^{1} ([0, i n f t y))

and

c h i i n C^{2} ([0, i n f t y))

are nonnegative with

f (0) = 0

. Problems of this type have been used to describe the mutual interaction of populations of swimming aerobic bacteria with the surrounding fluid. Up to now, however, global existence results seem to be available only for certain simplified variants such as e.g.the two-dimensional analogue, or the associated chemotaxis-Stokes system obtained on neglecting the nonlinear convective term in the fluid equation. The present work gives an affirmative answer to the question of global solvability in the following sense: Under mild assumptions on the initial data, and under modest structural assumptions on

f

and

c h i

, inter alia allowing for the prototypical case when [ f(s)=s quad {for all} sge 0 qquad {and} qquad chi equiv const., ] the corresponding initial-boundary value problem is shown to possess a globally defined weak solution.

Review text

The paper considers the initial-boundary value problem for the chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system in a two-dimensional bounded convex domain. It is known that there exists uniquely a global classical solution to this problem under approximate assumptions on given initial data. In this paper, the stability of the solution is studied. And it is shown that the solution stabilizes to the spatially uniform equilibrium \((\overline{n_0},0,0)\) as the time tends to infinity in the sense of \(L^\infty\). Here \(\overline {n_0}:=\frac{1}{|\Omega|} \int_\Omega n(x,0) dx\) with population density \(n(x,t)\).

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