Global classical small-data solutions for a three-dimensional chemotaxis Navier-Stokes system involving matrix-valued sensitivities

Abstract

The coupled chemotaxis fluid system \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{llc} n_t=\Delta n-\nabla\cdot(n S(x,n,c)\cdot\nabla c)-u\cdot\nabla n, &(x,t)\in \Omega\times (0,T), \displaystyle c_t=\Delta c-nc-u\cdot\nabla c, &(x,t)\in\Omega\times (0,T), \displaystyle u_t=\Delta u-(u\cdot\nabla )u+\nabla P+n\nabla\Phi,\quad \nabla\cdot u=0, &(x,t)\in\Omega\times (0,T), \displaystyle \nabla c\cdot\nu=(\nabla n-nS(x,n,c)\cdot\nabla c)\cdot\nu=0, \;\; u=0,&(x,t)\in \partial\Omega\times (0,T), n(x,0)=n_{0}(x),\quad c(x,0)=c_{0}(x),\quad u(x,0)=u_0(x) & x\in\Omega, \end{array} \right. \end{equation} where $S\in (C^2(\bar{\Omega}\times [0,\infty)^2))^{N\times N}$, is considered in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\in\{2,3\}$, with smooth boundary. We show that it has global classical solutions if the initial data satisfy certain smallness conditions and give decay properties of these solutions.