Boundedness criteria for a chemotaxis consumption model with gradient nonlinearities

Abstract

This work deals with the consumption chemotaxis problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases*} u_t = \Delta u - \chi \nabla \cdot u\nabla v + \lambda u - \mu u^2 - c \lvert \nabla u \rvert^\gamma, & \text{in $\Omega\times(0,\tmax)$}, v_t = \Delta v - uv, & \text{in $\Omega\times(0,\tmax)$}, \end{cases*} \end{equation*} in a bounded and smooth domain $\Omega\subset\R^n$, $n\geq 3$, under Neumann boundary conditions, for $\chi,\lambda,\mu,c>0$, $\tmax\in(0,\infty]$ and for $u_0,v_0$ positive initial data with a certain regularity. We will show that the problem has a unique and uniformly bounded classical solution for $\gamma\in\bigl(\frac{2n}{n+1},2\bigr]$. Moreover, we have the same result for $\gamma=\frac{2n}{n+1}$ and a condition that involves the parameters $c,\mu,n,\chi$ and the initial data.