Suppression of blow-up in 3-D Keller-Segel system with fractional diffusion via Couette flow in whole space

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that a strong Couette flow can prevent blow-up in a 3D Keller-Segel model with fractional diffusion, ensuring global solutions and decay rates through Green's function analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining Green's function estimates and space-frequency decomposition to analyze blow-up suppression in fractional Keller-Segel systems with Couette flow.

Findings

Large Couette flow prevents blow-up in the model.

Established global existence of solutions under certain flow conditions.

Derived decay rates for solutions in $L^p$ norms.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a Keller-Segel model with a fractional diffusion term in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in the background of a Couette flow. We show that when the background Couette flow is large enough, the dissipation enhancement induced could prevent the blow-up of solutions and thus prove the global existence and also obtain time decay rates of the solution in $L^p$ norm. The main tool of the proof is a corresponding Green's function and the key estimate is its $L^1$ estimate without singularities at $t=0$. To fulfill such an estimate, we meet great troubles caused by the fractional heat kernel together with the Couette flow in the model considered here and overcome the troubles by introducing a space-frequency mixed decomposition.