Boundedness in a two-dimensional doubly degenerate nutrient taxis system with logistic source

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Autori principali: Zhang, Zhiguang, Li, Yuxiang
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author Zhang, Zhiguang
Li, Yuxiang
author_facet Zhang, Zhiguang
Li, Yuxiang
contents We are concerned with the following doubly degenerate nutrient taxis system \begin{align} \begin{cases}\tag{$\star$}\label{eq-0.1} u_t=\nabla\cdot(u v\nabla u)-\nabla\cdot(u^{2} v\nabla v)+u-u^2,\\[1mm] v_t=Δv-u v, \end{cases} \end{align} posed in a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. This model was introduced to describe the aggregation patterns of colonies of \emph{Bacillus subtilis} observed on thin agar plates. Previous results have established global boundedness in one space dimension and, in two dimensions, under additional assumptions such as small initial data or convex domains (see, e.g., M. Winkler, \textit{Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.}, 2021; M. Winkler, \textit{J. Differ. Equ.}, 2024). In the presence of the quadratic degradation term in the logistic growth, which markedly enhances the dissipative structure of the system, and by employing a weighted energy method, we prove that for arbitrary smooth initial data the problem \eqref{eq-0.1} admits a global weak solution that remains uniformly bounded in time.
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spellingShingle Boundedness in a two-dimensional doubly degenerate nutrient taxis system with logistic source
Zhang, Zhiguang
Li, Yuxiang
Analysis of PDEs
We are concerned with the following doubly degenerate nutrient taxis system \begin{align} \begin{cases}\tag{$\star$}\label{eq-0.1} u_t=\nabla\cdot(u v\nabla u)-\nabla\cdot(u^{2} v\nabla v)+u-u^2,\\[1mm] v_t=Δv-u v, \end{cases} \end{align} posed in a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. This model was introduced to describe the aggregation patterns of colonies of \emph{Bacillus subtilis} observed on thin agar plates. Previous results have established global boundedness in one space dimension and, in two dimensions, under additional assumptions such as small initial data or convex domains (see, e.g., M. Winkler, \textit{Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.}, 2021; M. Winkler, \textit{J. Differ. Equ.}, 2024). In the presence of the quadratic degradation term in the logistic growth, which markedly enhances the dissipative structure of the system, and by employing a weighted energy method, we prove that for arbitrary smooth initial data the problem \eqref{eq-0.1} admits a global weak solution that remains uniformly bounded in time.
title Boundedness in a two-dimensional doubly degenerate nutrient taxis system with logistic source
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04845