Boundedness and stabilization in a three-dimensional two-species chemotaxis-Navier--Stokes system with competitive kinetics

TL;DR

This paper investigates the global existence, smoothness, and stabilization of weak solutions in a three-dimensional two-species chemotaxis-Navier--Stokes system with competitive kinetics, extending previous 2D results.

Contribution

It establishes the existence of global weak solutions and their stabilization in 3D, addressing challenges posed by the Navier--Stokes component.

Findings

Proved global existence of weak solutions in 3D

Demonstrated eventual smoothness of solutions

Showed stabilization towards steady states

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the 3-dimensional two-species chemotaxis-Navier--Stokes system with Lotka--Volterra competitive kinetics under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and initial conditions. Recently, in the 2-dimensional setting, global existence and stabilization of classical solutions to the above system were first established. However, the 3-dimensional case has not been studied: Because of difficulties in the Navier--Stokes system, we can not expect existence of classical solutions to the above system. The purpose of this paper is to obtain global existence of weak solutions to the above system, and their eventual smoothness and stabilization.