On the $8\pi$-critical mass threshold of a Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system

TL;DR

This paper analyzes a coupled Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system, establishing that solutions remain bounded over time when the total cell mass is below a critical threshold of 8π, with specific results for the plane and torus.

Contribution

It introduces a coupled system with dissipative free energy and identifies the 8π mass threshold as critical for solution boundedness in both plane and torus settings.

Findings

Solutions exist globally if mass < 8π on .

Radially symmetric solutions are critical at 8C.

Solutions are uniformly bounded on  with mass < 8C.

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a coupled Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system, which has dissipative free energy. On the plane $\rr^2$, if the total mass of the cells is strictly less than $8\pi$, classical solutions exist for any finite time, and their $H^s$-Sobolev norms are almost uniformly bounded in time. For the radially symmetric solutions, this $8\pi$-mass threshold is critical. On the torus $\mathbb{T}^2$, the solutions are uniformly bounded in time under the same mass constraint.